From: Howard Smith
Lambert Smith Hampton, the agents employed by the council to market the property and get the best price for it, advised that planning permission for conversion to residential would be extremely difficult.
So the question is, why were the agents, or indeed the council, prior to the sale not aware that the building could quite easily, and very profitably, be converted to residential without planning permission and, at the very least, point this out in their marketing to get a much better price?
This simple but important error meant that the council lost out on several million pounds, money desperately needed, clearly, with the council’s finances in such difficulties.
I think the residents of Guildford deserve to know why.
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Brian Creese
August 12, 2021 at 9:21 am
We seem to be getting a lot of bluster from the Lib Dems and R4GV groups, but few answers. They even seem slightly shocked that opposition parties are asking them to account for their actions. These decisions cost all of us a huge amount of money, and we need to be sure that the ruling parties take responsibility for their decisions.
Brian Creese is chair of Guildford Labour Party.