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| Topic Started: Jul 1 2011, 06:22 PM (632 Views) | |
| tainio | Jul 1 2011, 06:22 PM Post #1 |
 
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The Club has today (Friday) submitted a bid in line with the deadline for application for funds from Round 2 of the RGF in respect of the Northumberland Development Project (NDP), the Club's new stadium and associated development scheme. The RGF awards funding for projects that will directly create jobs through private sector enterprise and growth that will enable or unlock future private sector jobs growth, particularly in those areas and communities that are currently dependent on the public sector. The NDP represents a multi-million pound private sector-led regeneration scheme for North Tottenham, one of the most deprived parts of Britain – in an area where 40% of children live in households claiming benefits and a ward (Northumberland Park) where 71.6% claim employment and support allowance (national average 1.5%). The area is heavily dependent on the public sector. Chairman Daniel Levy said, "The NDP plans represent sport-led regeneration, anchored by our proposed new stadium. It would directly create thousands of new, private sector jobs, attract millions of pounds of additional expenditure in the local economy and lever further private sector investment into the area. As importantly, it would also protect the hundreds of current Club jobs, its existing economic impact and the valuable work of the Club's charitable Foundation in the local communities, by enabling us to stay in our current location. "We are one of the few large private sector employers in the Borough and the NDP is currently the sole significant proposed scheme for creating sustainable private sector jobs. Quite simply the Club is the only private entity looking to invest, on this scale, in the Borough and reverse the decline of decades of under-investment." RGF monies would be used to deliver a package of major infrastructure improvements which are vital if the project is to act as a platform for wider regeneration and crucial if the whole project is to be made viable. These would include station upgrades, public community space, employment and training facilities, restored listed properties, Combined Cooling Heating Plant, site enabling and public realm works. In support of the bid, Claire Kober, Leader, Haringey Council said, "The Council and Club are doing everything possible to make this scheme a reality, but the hard fact is that additional public sector financial support is needed to stimulate regeneration in this area. Without this it will be difficult for the scheme to provide the catalyst to economic growth and job creation in an area of high unemployment. "Approval to the RGF bid will help unlock the transformation of the area. RGF funds will contribute to vital infrastructure improvements which are key for the scheme to proceed in a sustainable way. This will then underpin not only the new stadium and associated developments but also further development of new homes and jobs in the wider area leveraging additional value from the RGF investment." David Lammy, our local MP, added his strong support saying, "I support this bid by Tottenham Hotspur, which has the opportunity to transform an entire community with the highest unemployment in London. The plan to redevelop White Hart Lane is far and away the most exciting regeneration project in London after the Olympics, and it is encouraging that it is private sector-led. "This Regional Growth Fund proposal will benefit everyone in Tottenham and I urge the government to agree to Spurs’ bid.” Daniel Levy added, "We are working hard to make the NDP scheme viable and enable us to stay in Tottenham and redevelop our existing site. Public sector assistance for infrastructure and public realm works would enable us to deliver the project and the RGF represents the single most important route for funding. Our hope must be that there is a recognition of the real need for investment in the Northumberland Park ward and that this project presents a real opportunity to deliver sustainable long-term private sector-led regeneration." |
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| YidTk1 | Jul 1 2011, 06:28 PM Post #2 |
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I thought the NDP was "dead"! 
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| Joker John | Jul 1 2011, 06:44 PM Post #3 |
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San Jose all the way!
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Is that the Canadian New Democratic Party? It is very much alive. |
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| Berkspur | Jul 1 2011, 07:20 PM Post #4 |
We ONLY scored from a corner!!!
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Nicked from another site: Tweets from paul kelso: Olympic Park Legacy Company suspends employee who was also working for West Ham. Claims that stadium process "not compromised". #WHUFC #THFC OPLC employee was doing paid consultancy for West Ham, OPLC only discovered when doorstepped by media. @James Pearce: Breaking: Olympic Park Legacy Company suspends an employee it discovers has been doing paid consultancy work for West Ham @London tonight: An employee of the Olympic Park Legacy Company has been suspended after it was revealed she was working as a consultant for West Ham United. |
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| Berkspur | Jul 1 2011, 07:24 PM Post #5 |
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We ONLY scored from a corner!!!
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An Olympic Park Legacy Company director has been suspended after revealing she had been working as a paid consultant for West Ham. The woman, who is not being named, was suspended on Friday with immediate effect while the potential clash of interests is investigated. She alerted the OPLC of the situation on Thursday night. The OPLC board, in charge of securing the future of the Olympic Park site, voted 14-0 in February to make the Hammers the first choice to move into the £486million stadium. The Hammers were in a head-to-head contest with Tottenham. A statement from the OPLC read: "It has come to our attention that an employee of the Olympic Park Legacy Company has been undertaking paid consultancy work for West Ham United FC. "The company had no knowledge of this work and no permission was given to undertake it. This individual had no involvement whatsoever in our stadium process. "The individual concerned had declared a personal relationship with an employee of West Ham United FC when she joined the organisation and we therefore put robust measures in place to ensure our stadium process was not compromised. "The stadium team has been based at our law firm Eversheds' offices in the City and only the stadium team had access to information about the bids. "As soon as this new information came to light, the company took immediate action and launched an independent investigation. "The employee has been suspended pending the outcome of this." The discovery about the employee's work status came to light on Friday. Hammers response West Ham also released a statement, stressing their belief that the bidding process had not been compromised. The statement read: "We have become aware of enquiries being made in respect of a lady who has undertaken work for West Ham United on a consultancy basis relating to the Olympic Stadium project. "Having learned of the enquiries, we have undertaken an initial internal investigation. "We have established that the work that was carried out was not connected in any way to the bidding process for the Olympic Stadium, but procurement project management thereafter. "We are of the firm view that the integrity of the bidding process has not been compromised. "We consider that the bidding process was robust and believe that remains the case." The woman, who has been suspended on full pay, told her bosses at the OPLC that she was in a relationship with a West Ham employee when she got the job at the company. The OPLC stressed they did not know about any other connections with the east London club until Friday. It claimed it had been "meticulous" and taken care to be "robust" about the bid process due to the sensitivity of the hotly-contested campaigns to move into the Olympic Stadium. Chance The decision to award the Olympic Stadium to West Ham is still subject to possible High Court legal judicial reviews. The OPLC moved the base for the Olympic Stadium bidding process away from their east London headquarters to their lawyer's offices in central London. It is believed that this precaution has given the OPLC confidence that no information could be discovered, even accidentally. This week Tottenham went back to the High Court to continue their bid for a judicial review of the decision to award the Olympic Stadium to West Ham. Spurs are refusing to accept defeat after last week's decision by Judge Mr Justice Davis to reject their bid and that of Leyton Orient's. The north London club will now have the chance to make a case in an oral hearing at the High Court. |
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We won the L the Feyenoord Jubileum Tournament trophy. Hurrah! P.S. We are the fairest of them all - we have a trophy to prove it. Oh..and we beat Chelsea AGAIN! | |
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| Scarf | Jul 2 2011, 07:06 AM Post #6 |
Baby come back
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14-0 
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| Hareyspur | Jul 2 2011, 08:05 AM Post #7 |
Oops!
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we should demand a recount 
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| S-Ponz | Jul 2 2011, 09:03 AM Post #8 |
Winning
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Karen Brady prob counted it herself.... |
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| Cider | Jul 2 2011, 09:08 AM Post #9 |
Posters Poster of the Year 2011
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Nah - she cant count Me on the other hand
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| S-Ponz | Jul 2 2011, 09:34 AM Post #10 |
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Winning
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1,2,3,6,8,50,32,99, 12, 5, 0, 14 |
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| Berkspur | Jul 2 2011, 10:49 PM Post #11 |
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We ONLY scored from a corner!!!
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More on this from Sunday Times... Lovers suspended in stadium scandal West Ham paid £20,000 to a director of the authority that chose it over Tottenham Hotspur to take over the Games venue after 2012 Michael Gillard, Jonathan Calvert and Claire Newell Published: 3 July 2011 The venue was an upmarket central London hotel and the man sitting opposite the reporters from The Sunday Times was a shadowy corporate intelligence investigator. He had spent the past four months inquiring into how West Ham United football club had won the lucrative prize of taking over the Olympic stadium after the 2012 Games. The client paying for his work was Tottenham Hotspur, the Premier League club and losing bidder in the contest for the stadium. Tottenham suspected that confidential information relating to its bid had been leaked. The investigator explained that he had been researching key employees and board members of the Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC), the government body that decided on the future of the stadium. In the course of this intelligence-gathering he had come across some explosive information. He lent forward across the table and pulled out a photocopy of a NatWest bank statement from a folder. The statement detailed payments in and out of an account belonging to Dionne Knight, a young executive who has been the director of corporate services at the OPLC since May last year on a salary of £84,000. Four of the payments on the statement were clearly marked "West Ham United Fo". This was a seemingly damning conflict of interest. Knight had been paid £566 and £1,302 by the club in the month before the stadium decision and two further sums of £3,400 and £4,646 afterwards. The investigator said there had also been a £4,800 payment in June. "We can't think of a reasonable explanation why one of the bidders should be paying a senior executive from the OPLC," the investigator said. The investigator also explained that Knight was in a relationship with Ian Tompkins, who happened to be the Olympic project director in charge of securing the stadium for West Ham. This weekend it has emerged that Knight had been paid a total of £20,400 by West Ham during the crucial bidding period. The payments were arranged by Tompkins and known to his boss, Karren Brady, West Ham's vice-chairman. Knight and the club say the payments were for "consultancy work" preparing documents for a procurement project on the new stadium. However, the explanation raises questions as to why West Ham saw no conflict of interest in hiring a senior OPLC executive during the bid. Both Knight and Tompkins have been suspended pending internal investigations. The fall-out could have serious ramifications for the cash-strapped West Ham, which was relegated from the Premier League in May. The government will also come under pressure from Tottenham to reopen the bidding process, which could cost the taxpayer millions. In just over a year the eyes of the world will be on the Olympic stadium as it becomes the glittering central stage for the London Games. The £500m bowl-like structure is built to seat 80,000 people but is considered too large to continue afterwards as an athletics-only venue. The obvious solution was to turn it into a football ground which could also be used for athletics. The OPLC was set up in the summer of 2009 to find new owners for the stadium and other parts of the Olympic park. West Ham proposed a scheme that reduced the seating capacity to 60,000 but maintained the running track for athletics events. The cost of its redevelopment plan was £95m, to be financed with £35m from the Olympic Delivery Authority, a £40m loan from Newham borough council and the sale of the club's Upton Park ground. It was a winning formula. On February 11 the OPLC's board voted 14-0 to make West Ham the preferred bidder. Its decision was ratified by the government in March. Tottenham had come into the bidding process late in the day. The club was anxious to emulate its neighbour, Arsenal, and boost revenues by moving into a new ground with an increased capacity. It had initially dismissed the Olympic stadium as an option because it did not believe its plans would be acceptable. The club wanted to rebuild the stadium without a running track and develop the athletics facilities elsewhere. However, at a meeting in City Hall last September, Simon Milton, an adviser to the London mayor, Boris Johnson, encouraged Tottenham to enter the contest. Milton later reassured Tottenham that its plans to make the stadium football-only would not count against it. The 14-0 defeat on February shocked Tottenham, especially as its plans to rip down the building and not retain the running track were given as reasons for the defeat. A Tottenham source said the briefing packs that the OPLC had prepared on each bid were "very biased" against the club. It even wondered if its confidential bid document had been leaked to West Ham. "We were completely stitched up," said the source, who believes that Tottenham was "duped" into entering the contest. A second highly placed Tottenham source said: "We had been used to leverage a higher or better offer from West Ham. We thought our bid financially would blow them out of the water, bearing in mind [West Ham's] finances." Tottenham decided to challenge the OPLC and the government through the courts. An initial case seeking judicial review was turned down and an appeal was also refused 10 days ago. The club announced last week that it would now challenge the decision. However, Tottenham had secretly opened up a second front against West Ham and the OPLC. Two days before the bid decision, it had hired a corporate intelligence company to make discreet inquiries. The investigators targeted the 14 OPLC board members, who had voted on the bid, looking for conflicts of interests. Businesses and associates were all cross-checked against high-profile members of the West Ham bid, including David Sullivan, the joint owner and chairman, and Brady. During a trawl of the internet, the investigators came across a well-informed blog by Mike Law, a former Newham councillor who was suspicious of the loan that the Labour-run council had pledged to West Ham. "It was a bizarre partnership between a deprived local authority and a failing football club," he said. Law gave a witness statement to lawyers acting for Tottenham in which he mentioned the relationship between Knight and Tompkins. Knight, a 34-year-old single mother, had worked with 53-year-old Tompkins at Newham council. She was director of procurement and Tompkins director of communications. The relationship had begun in May 2008 after Tompkins had separated from his wife and four months before he joined West Ham. The rumours about the relationship between two key figures in the bidding process were fed to the investigators working for Tottenham. In early May the investigators put Knight under surveillance at her £350,000 Surrey home, where she lives with her teenage daughter. The investigators obtained access to utility bills, credit reports and also the bank statements of both Knight and Tompkins. Such practices are a breach of data protection law when carried out for commercial reasons. A spokesman for the information commissioner said investigators may have a public interest defence if they are exposing corruption. |
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| Hareyspur | Jul 3 2011, 07:43 AM Post #12 |
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West Ham legal action over 2012 stadium claims West Ham United are taking legal action against Tottenham Hotspur and The Sunday Times over allegations about the Olympic Stadium bidding process. West Ham said they were treating the claims "with the utmost seriousness". It comes after an Olympic Park Legacy Company (OPLC) employee was suspended when it emerged she worked for West Ham during their bid to use the stadium in London after the 2012 Games. West Ham said they were "certain of the robustness" of their successful bid. A West Ham spokesman said: "West Ham United can confirm the club are taking legal action in relation to allegations made in today's Sunday Times. "We are certain of the robustness of our successful bid for the Olympic Stadium." Consultancy work On Friday it was revealed that an OPLC director had been suspended on full pay after it emerged she had been undertaking paid consultancy work for West Ham. She had declared "a personal relationship" with a Hammers employee when she started at the OPLC, but on Thursday she told the legacy company of her work at the club. The OPLC said she was being suspended while any possible conflict of interest was investigated. The OPLC board voted 14-0 in February to back the Hammers as first choice to move into the £486m stadium after the Games. The OPLC and West Ham said the woman had no involvement in that decision. West Ham said they had already carried out an investigation into the woman's role with the club. |
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| Chicagospur | Jul 3 2011, 07:56 AM Post #13 |
Bound for the Champion's League, I hope!
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Well, if we don't already know that the whole thing stank like the rancid mackerel which Mrs B. Uses to slap the deserving....... |
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| S-Ponz | Jul 3 2011, 08:58 AM Post #14 |
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Winning
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So West Ham sueing us for liable about the bid when there has been 3 suspensions of staff about it know....good luck with that |
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| Joker John | Jul 3 2011, 03:39 PM Post #15 |
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San Jose all the way!
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Jeez, I thought this was England, not Italy or Nigeria. |
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| S-Ponz | Jul 3 2011, 06:05 PM Post #16 |
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Winning
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Good evening. Difficult to remember when the phrase, ‘You couldn’t make it up’ was more apt. The Sunday Times have pulled a rather grubby looking rabbit out of a hat here. A table creaking feast of story in today’s issue. Here then are the facts as presented. Corporate investigators hired by Levy & Co believe they have discovered payments the most recent of which was £4,800 made in June into the back account of a woman called Dionne Knight. The payments came from an account operated by Naughty Knickers Of Newham Ltd T/A West Ham United Football Club. Dionne Knight is the Director of Corporate Services at OPLC or Olympic Park Legacy Company. Dionne is in a relationship with a man called Ian Tompkins. Ian is a Director of West Ham Football Club. Doorstepped by The Sunday Times, Dionne claimed that the monies – which she did not dispute – were paid for ‘some consultancy work’ she had done for the Porn Barons. Dionne also disclosed that Karren Brady #facelikeakickedinfridge was fully aware of her ‘consultancy work’ , but that Dionne had not made the OPLC aware of it. The timeline for this work was that it began two months before the decision to award the Stadium to West Ham. The Sunday Times believes that the corporate detectives were engaged by Tottenham two days before the decision was announced. Readers with keen memories will recall that West Ham began celebrating their ‘win’ at least a day before the decision was formally announced. On Friday both Ian Tompkins and Dionne Knight were suspended from their positions. Yesterday, a solicitor acting for Dionne revealed that her consultancy work was, ‘a procurement contract in relation to the Olympic Stadium.’ So just to clarify, the Bid Director of West Ham Football Club was sleeping with the Olympic Park Legacy Company’s Director of Corporate Services. Now this next bit is good. Dionne didn’t tell the OPLC that she was receiving money from the Porn Barons, but she did tell them that she was receiving in a relationship with Ian. So the OPLC in their said, ‘ measures were taken to ensure she had no access to sensitive information.’ So there you have it. A sordid little tale that stinks to high heaven. The Barons, Tubby Baron & Taller Baron will have to think on their feet here. The OPLC’s Corporate Director, Dionne Knight was not only in a relationship with the Bidding Director of West Ham, but she was also employed by West Ham on a consultative basis. I am no expert, but I would imagine that the sourcing of this information was absolutely in the public interest. Proof of this if you ever needed it – was that it was hushed up. |
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| Coq | Jul 4 2011, 07:34 AM Post #17 |
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GDS
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| S-Ponz | Jul 4 2011, 07:58 AM Post #18 |
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Good morning fight fans and welcome to another installment of Two Dirty Old Men & A Brady. So West Ham are to take time out from a busy schedule of selling season tickets to street urchins at £90 a pop and embark upon a course of legal action against The Sunday Times and Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. Lord Sugar must be laughing so hard right now that the task for Wednesday night will be to design & market him a ventilator. ‘And remember teams, none of that Amstrad rubbish. This must be robust.’ Robust is the buzz word. West Ham’s official statement is adamant that their bid was robust. I’m always fascinated by the the use and frequent corruption of language. And I’m not just talking about my typos. Robust. Webster’s tells us this means vigorous. Sturdy. Exhibiting strength. Not words I would have immediately associated with a relegated outfit of chancers soon to be stripped of their best players whilst staring down the barrel of a stadium they are never going to fill unless they replace their entire back four with Take That. And this from within the quicksand like depths of the Championship. Lord Sugar called it right. They are indeed blowing more than bleedin’ bubbles now. And even sooner than even the most sceptical of us might have imagined. In a ‘Club Statement’ West Ham say, “We are so confident in the probity of our actions that we will take the strongest action possible against any suggestion of wrongdoing on the part of West Ham United or its officers, as well as involve the police and the data protection registrar in regard to the accessing of private information by illegal means.” That sounds quite bullish; like they may just be onto something. But then if you let a few facts get in the way, let a few pivotal pieces of information through the the bluster you get a very different picture. A soon to be relegated football club, that cannot sell out in it’s existing ground, up to it’s crotchless frillies in debt, manages to convince their local council in a time of austerity to rustle up £40million in used notes and back their application to become tenants of an Olympic Stadium. Then it transpires that the West Ham Bidding Director is shacked up with the Corporate Director of the Olympic Park Legacy Company. This only turns out to be half the tale. The missing piece of this puzzle which incidentally a chimpanzee with a saucepan stuck on it’s head could solve is that this Corporate Director at the Olympic Park Legacy Company, who’s shacked up with the West Ham Bidding Director turns out to have been on the payroll of West Ham as a consultant, wait for it… in relation to West Ham’s bid for the Olympic Stadium. If that’s robust, then everyone one Facebook actually knows every single one of their friends. It’s not been in the public interest to disclose this information I’ll eat my hat. |
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| miker | Jul 4 2011, 08:32 AM Post #19 |
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"In early May the investigators put Knight under surveillance at her £350,000 Surrey home, where she lives with her teenage daughter. The investigators obtained access to utility bills, credit reports and also the bank statements of both Knight and Tompkins. Such practices are a breach of data protection law when carried out for commercial reasons. A spokesman for the information commissioner said investigators may have a public interest defence if they are exposing corruption." Spot the get-out clause for the investigator! 
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| YidTk1 | Sep 20 2011, 12:37 PM Post #20 |
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The Club can confirm that the S106 agreement in respect of the Northumberland Development Project has now been completed and planning permissions have been issued. This enables discussions with the London Borough of Haringey, the Mayor of London and Central Government to continue as we seek to make the development viable and deliverable. As always, we shall keep all our supporters updated as these progress. 
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