| Topic: | C Whitehead, "My Serious Allegations" about the Conservators | |
| Posted by: | John Cameron | |
| Date/Time: | 13/10/14 11:11:00 |
| Caroline Whitehead suggests that "my serious allegations” should be referred by to the Charity Commissioners. CW may have a point.... 1. The Conservators entered into sham legal agreements with the WPCT and WBC to allow roads to be built to the polyclinic. The agreements were meaningless, transferring rights of access to the WPCT for a scheme that would never be built, that the Conservators would never receive payment for. The scheme was dead in the water when the agreements were signed, which the Conservators knew. Charity Trustees don’t enter into legal agreements knowing they are a sham, joining into a collusion between the WPCT and Wandsworth. But the Conservators did. By their own admission the deal was to set the scene for what they knew was to come. David Devons lied about it, stating that the Conservators did not know the scheme was dead. It was dead and of course the Conservators did not receive the money. They simply had to say, no polyclinic, no need for a deal, we are not signing. But they did sign, received no money, and then lied about it. Why? 2. On entering into the second sale of access land with Wandsworth they conducted the deal in secrecy, with no public / levy payers consultation, based on cosy private discussions, refusing time and time again to release the records of the meetings. The meeting notes released reflect that this was a done deal, that the Conservators gave no thought or concern to the implications for Putney Common or how it would be destroyed. None. 3. The Conservators have not produced the board papers prepared to describing for the record the transaction and its merits. Nor have they provided evidence of the necessary risk assessments they were obliged to undertake. Despite repeated requests they cannot demonstrate that the Trustees discussed and debated the sale. A discussion that despite their considerable misgivings about the over intensity of the proposed development, which the Trustees entered into secretly. Why don’t the Conservators simply release all the board papers and minutes, making them publically available on their website? 4. The Conservators sold the access for a fraction of what it was worth, some 10% of its true value. They sold the access to the school for £1 simply to allow the Council to load the luxury flats development with as much cost as possible, to ensure that it was unviable in terms of affordable housing. Wandsworth did the same, loading the feasibility study of the flats with 100% of the purchase price of the entire site, including the school. It is how barrow bow developers behave, not Trustees of a Charity. The Conservators, for no adequate reason, refuse to release the independent valuation of the land. Why? 5. The hospital closed some 15+ years ago and for the past umpteen years 5,000 sq metres of common land has been enclosed by the hoarding. The hoarding is Wandsworths, put there with the agreement of the Conservators, who are under the 1871 Act obliged to resist encroachment by local authorities. They boast at Windmill Towers how good they are at resisting encroachment by local authorities. At Putney Hospital they worked positively to ensure encroachment and enclosure, as they negotiated their shabby undemocratic deal. Any Conservator who understood their responsibilities would never have allowed the land to be enclosed. Never. The current Conservators did, they intended the land to be sold, not defended. 6. In respect of the Royal Wimbledon Golf Club car park Devons described the private, gated, landscaped car park of the golf club as “common” and that the situation was “temporary”. This is utter b******* and a lie. The land is the car park of the RWGC, and will be forever. Just like the access road at Putney Hospital to an over intensive development that will destroy Putney Common. |