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West End Extra - by TOM FOOT
Published: 24 August 2007
 
Old people’s home is protected by covenant

AN old people’s home at the centre of a closure row was intended to protect the vulnerable for another half century.
The crucial covenant 15 (pictured) was supposed to ensure that the 28-room Macinstosh Ho­use in Beaumont Street, Marylebone, remained an old people’s home until it expired on April 3 2054.
The block was shut down in March after the council deciding bringing it up to new health and safety standards would cost £800,000 and be too expensive.
Lead housing member Cllr Angela Harvey said it had become impossible to house elderly people because of the building’s state of disrepair.
The 99-year lease was bought in 1955 using funds from the estate of Lady Macintosh who is described as “a tireless campaigner for the old people of the Borough” on a plaque inside the building that is named after her.
She was a good friend of Lucy Nettlefold, former Tory Alderman of Marylebone Borough Council at the time.
The agreement betw­een landlords Howard de Walden and the former Alderman of the old Marylebone Borough Council – stating the premises should be “used and occupied for the purpose only of old people’s dwellings” – has been broken.
A copy of the covenant was being studied by Andrew Dismore MP a former leader of the opposition on Westminster Council this week.
Sante Zanello, a 69-year-old former top West End chef, refuses to leave the 28-room building.
He is sharing the four-storey building with a caretaker.
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