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By KIM JANSSEN
 
Tower vote legal says law chief

LABOUR planning chief Councillor Heather Johnson will not face an investigation into her controversial vote which sealed the go-ahead to a multi-million pound tower block overlooking Regent’s Park.
Borough solicitor Alison Lowton has written to Tory councillors who had complained about the vote, insisting Clr Johnson had acted properly and would not face a probe.
Cllr Johnson, chair of Camden’s lanning committee, cast the deciding vote in favour of architect Sir Terry Farrell’s redevelopment of a massive site covering parts of Osnaburgh Street, Longford Street, Euston Road and Albany Street.
She was criticised because she is a director of the West Euston Parntership, a public and privately-funded regeneration body, which supported the proposals. The developers, British Land, are listed as funders of the WEP.
Cllr Johnson did declare an interest at the meeting but insists that it was not prejudicial and did not prevent her from voting for the scheme, which was opposed by conservationists and many residents.
Richard Simpson, chairman of the Regent’s Park Conservation Area Committee, which led opposition to the plans, is consulting lawyers over whether he should make a separate complaint.
In her letter, Ms Lowton wrote that the code that governs councillors’ conduct allowed Cllr Johnson to vote because she had been appointed to the partnership by the Town Hall, had distanced herself from the application until casting the final vote and the partnership was not, in any case, the applicant.
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