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Lessons to be learned
• REGARDING your article on the new gate in Chinatown and Rosewheel (Council hopes new chinese gateway will ease tension, Feb 23), I would say the lesson we have all learnt (myself included from my role as Rosewheel’s spokesman) from the Rosewheel’s involvement in the Newport Sandringham Building is that in a community like London Chinatown, being legally correct is not quite enough.
The community has to be on board. For example, the last head lessee of the building sold the remainder of the lease to Rosewheel, and Rosewheel can sell the remainder of the lease to another party.
All that is required is a contract between the two respective parties, and the permission of another party is not required for a legally binding contract.
In Chinatown, however, it is essential for all businesses to have the support of the community.
Therefore it will be wise for any hypothetical purchasers of the lease of the building from Rosewheel in any hypothetical sale to present their plan for the building (which they must have at the time of the lease sale negotiation) to the community representatives, for example, CCC, LCCA, Chinatown Action Plan Steering Group etc, and secure their agreement in principle.
HORATIO CHENG
(Address supplied)
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