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Paul Brown-Constable studio@graffiti.biz
Mitre House Pots & Sheds & Thanks & Goodbye
10 June 2019 at 02:26
Marion Kinsey marion.kinsey@maundertaylor.co.uk, Maunder Taylor A/cs Address chris.hollisbrowne@maundertaylor.co.uk, Michael Maunder Taylor Michael.MaunderTaylor@maundertaylor.co.uk, Bruce R. Maunder Taylor brmt@maundertaylor.co.uk
Dear Chris,
Thank you for your dictated email response.
As I said to Dave (DBK Building and Property Maintenance Ltd) in a text 22 May 2019, best get the items (£500 of terracotta) back "before an unfortunate situation becoming complex”.
They weren’t and It has. As suspected, Mrs Hillgarth made the enquiry resulting in your letter of 3rd May and my comprehensive reply dated 7th May making abundantly clear the pots were on a non demised area to Mitre House and the owners were a long line of the various commercial units to whom the roof area was demised.
They had been in situ for decades and had never received negative comments in any fire safety assessment reports.
Consequently neither Mrs Hillgarth nor anybody else had the right to remove & dispose of them. Had you replied to my 7 May email insisting on their removal I had arranged to donate them to the Royal Hospital Pensioners gardens having attempted to ascertain if any commercial unit would object.
And just by-and-by, you would find it hard to find anybody who would believe that £50 worth, let alone £500 worth of terracotta/plants/shrubberies would be dumped in a skip? Dave is not to be chastised as he did exactly what he was told to do and say.
Almost the exact same situation occurred regarding the fire-alarm system. I made a comment about siting on 21 February to be told it cannot be changed. Mrs Hillgarth attended Mitre House on 17th April with potential new Agents and made comment about the siting and on 15th May when the pots were disposed of, the fire-alarm was re-sited. That you will appreciate differs somewhat to your explanation? Most firemen are six foot and at eye level with the box...and the re-siting is again at roughly same height and still in an visually inopportune position!
I note with appreciation the result of the “zero tolerance/managed” vote which does somewhat dismiss Mrs Hillgarth’s constant badgering of Maunder Taylor over observations not of her concern other than purely vindictive to live in residents/tenants
The above examples would not appear to be, as you say, “as managing agent, it is our duty to treat all leaseholders equally,”
As regards your lengthy references to the shed/ownership/contents etc, my letter of 7 May made that abundantly clear. Neither the shed nor its contents have any owner other than Mitre House (the property of Mitre House, not the old Management). I don’t recall any mention of basement other than previous works' contractors have stored paints etc not suitable for the basement during their time on site.
Your enquiries to our present Freeholder’s Agents JLL would not have been fruitful as JLL have only represented Royal London (Freeholders) since around 2012/13. The replacement shed was installed in 2004/5 by our then works’ contractors NAL,