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Islington Tribune - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 3 July 2009
 
Challenge to my rights

• DEPRIVING the 1,200 residents of Peabody Whitecross estate in Finsbury of £16,000 meant to be spent on “minor improvements to communal areas” is one reason I criticise the long-standing “proprietors” of the Whitecross Tenants’ Association committee, which I was able to get elected to last year (Storm over the 33 letters which went up on estate noticeboards, June 6).
Chairwoman Eileen O’Flaherty decided without asking the committee that there should be a £16,000 bid for a comparatively major project – tarmacing an estate road.
Cash-strapped Peabody Trust could thus tap into its annual fund meant for minor items such as window boxes, planters, cycle racks, pigeon deterrents, football cages and benches.
Mrs O’Flaherty and her fellow “proprietors” on the committee kept secret from me, a minority of one, for eight months that Janet McLagan had moved from the estate but kept acting as committee secretary, although ineligible. Perhaps it was because they did not want me to be secretary.
They recently purported to throw me out of the Tenants’ Association. Without notice, written accusation or written evidence, this was done at a five-minute meeting, quite unconstitutionally.
I’m of course still a member of the Tenants’ Association and its committee but my rights have been abrogated.
LEO CHAPMAN
Dufferin Street, EC1

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