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Brent Council has sold Brent House, Wembley High Road, for more than the £10m asking price.
It has been sold to Henley Homes who have plans for up to 265 homes on the site subject to Brent Council giving planning approval.
Brent House is close to the old Copland High School, now Ark Elvin, which is also the subject of an extensive planning application.
The sale follows plans for the conversion of the high rise Wembley Point at Harrow Road/North Circular into homes.
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Seeing 'millions' and Copland School in the same article should ring a bell with Mr Butt and Mr Pavey and have them both sticking a post-it Note to Self on their fridges as follows:
'1. Find out progress of the 'pursuit of costs through the civil courts' which we promised when we told the gobsmacked judge in the dodgy headmaster Davies case that we weren't applying for costs.
2. Find out progress in the pursuit of the overpaid 'bonuses' to Davies and chums in same case.
3. Find out what really happened to the Mary Fedden paintings
4. Try really really really hard to tell Cara that we need to have a word today.
Or maybe leave it til Monday ..................or December .............'
What were the Mary Fedden paintings? I mean, I knnow who she was, but were there some in Brent's possession?
This appeared as a comment on WM in October 2013:
You refer to the tricking of the aged artist Mary Fedden into 'donating' expensive paintings supposedly for a 'gallery' at the school to inspire 'deprived' youngsters. Evans paid a number of visits to her house taking young pupils with him as 'leverage'. These children were witnesses to his eagerness to get his hands on the artwork.. The paintings were then sold at Sothebys by Evans. Others have supplied the police with evidence corroborating this. Why no prosecution yet?
See http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2009/jun/07/tory-deputy-head-paintings-mary-fedden
Another comment somewhere 'had it on authority' that some of the paintings came into the possession of Brent Council. The assumption seemed to be that the paintings Evans hadn't yet managed to flog, he claimed were, of course, given to the school and, as he was by this time suspended or resigned, he handed them over to their 'rightful owner' (or the Council as Copland's ultimate authority).
Given the Council's feeble efforts in the whole saga, they probably returned them to him!
I know for a fact that the police have been in contact with witnesses within the last 12 months. No action though.
Blimey. As my dad would have said, bent as a nine bob note. Thanks for the background, all.
Can't Brent Council just be asked a straight question about this? They either do have these paintings or they don't. There must be a record of what happened at the time. Is FOI relevant to this situation? Would Ms Ledden know?
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