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From the Epsom Guardian, 25th October 2007:
IMPORTANT NOTE: MORE THAN ONE WEEK LATER, COUNCILLOR NICK SKELLETT HAS STILL NOT REPLIED TO BILL SLAUGHTER'S LETTER AND GIVEN THE ASSURANCE SOUGHT THAT THE INVESTIGATION WOULD BE HALTED IMMEDIATELY. INTERESTINGLY, COUNCILLOR SKELLETT HAS NOT BEEN PREPARED TO CONFIRM IN WRITING THE CLAIM BY SURREY COUNTY COUNCIL'S ANONYMOUS SPOKESMAN THAT, "THERE IS NO INVESTIGATION GOING ON..."
BILL SLAUGHTER’S LETTER TO CLLR SKELLETT CAN BE VIEWED BY CLICKING HERE > Mansion House Latest News
From the Epsom Guardian , 25th October 2007:
Just one person who attended the meeting was more concerned to make a political point than support SARA’s Campaign to Save Nonsuch Park and the Mansion House!
Following Mr Cox’s letter to the Guardian on 18th October 2007 (see below), SARA’s Chairman, Bill Slaughter, corrected the misleading statements made by Mr Cox and pointed out the facts of the matter, in his reply published on 25th October 2007 (see above):
From the Epsom Guardian , 18th October 2007:
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Epsom Guardian - Letters Page, 20th September 2007:
Chairmans Note: This is the joint letter signed by Stoneleigh and Auriol Residents' Association (SARA) and the three Residents' Associations who have joined the SARA Campaign to Save the Nonsuch Mansion House.
Since this letter was sent for publication, Ewell Village Residents' Association has also joined the SARA campaign.
Also, on the same Letters Page:
Chairmans Note: This astonishing letter, from Conservative County Councillor Ian Lake, takes being 'economical with the truth' to new and previously unimaginable heights!
Councillor Lake is the 'architect' and driving force behind SCC's plans to sell off Nonsuch Mansion House. If, as Councillor Lake claims - "Surrey County Council's objective has always been to ensure the future of Nonsuch Park for all the residents' continued enjoyment" - SCC would not have snatched the management and operational control of the Park and Mansion House away from the independent and widely-respected Nonsuch Park Joint Management Committee (JMC).
Councillor Lake repeats his previous false assertion that, "The report is still in draft form...". The report commissioned by Bidwells - a firm of commercial estate agents - deals only with options aimed at disposing of the Mansion House and surrounding walled gardens for commercial development. In fact, returning control of Nonsuch Park and the Mansion House to the JMC was not even considered in the report.
Councillor Lake's statement that, "The present arrangements are not financially sustainable and are nowhere near meeting the annual running costs", is extremely disingenuous because it fails to reveal that, by removing control of the Park and Mansion House from the JMC, The County Council has prevented the JMC from entering into sustainable financial arrangements that would secure the future of the Mansion House. Surrey County Council - as Councillor Lake knows only too well - has never paid one penny towards the annual running costs, until recently being forced to pump in £95,000 to meet overheads that have arisen following its removal of operational control from the JMC.
From the front page of the Epsom Post, 19th September 2007:
From the Epsom Guardian, 13th September 2007:
Chairman's note: Conservative Councillor Lake's comment, that "The report is only a draft and work is still being done on it", is deceptive nonsense and UTTERLY UNTRUE. Despite the report being confidential and Surrey County Council's refusal to make it public, I have a copy of it. The report by Bidwells - a firm of commercial estate agents - is a signed off, full and final report, presented to the County Council by representatives from Bidwells at a meeting in County Hall that took place on Friday 31st August 2007.
From the Epsom Post, 5th September 2007:
Bill Slaughter’s letter, published in the Epsom Guardian on 17th April 2007:
and on 26th April:
