Reference
MB2/TEB/6/3108
Title
Correspondence file: Relating to the sale of Tebworth Chapel, Toddington Road.
Date free text
Sep 1990-Jun 1993
Production date
From: 1990 To: 1993
Scope and Content
Parties involved in the sale include: The Methodist Church Property Division, The Methodist Church London Committee, The Methodist Church Dunstable Circuit, Daniel Smith Chartered Surveyors, Tebworth Church Council, South Bedfordshire District Council, Victor White & Fearn Solicitors, The Department of Health and Mr Saver of Chiltern Air Conditioning and Heating. File includes:
-Copy notice of listed building refusal from South Bedfordshire District Council to change the use of Chapel for residential purposes; dated 10th January 1991.
-Information on serving a listed building Purchase Notice and preparing the service of notice for the South Bedfordshire District Council. Also includes correspondence referring to their counter notice being unwilling to accept.
-Information on a public inquiry scheduled for the 25th February 1992 together with the preparation and submission of these to the Department of the Environment. (See MB4012 for pre-inquest files and cases put together by Daniel Smith, Chartered Surveyors on behalf of The Trustees of the Methodist Church and South Bedfordshire District Council. See MB4013 for the decision statement made by The Department of Health concerning widening the marketing of the premises to include religious and other D1 users and possibly an office or residential user.
-Information on costs of appeals, advertising etc. and the spiralling agent’s fees.
-Information on prospective buyers and surveyors reports on the property subsequent to contract.
-Information on the sale of the Chapel on the 9th June 1993 for £18,000 (net sale of £14,206) with a breakdown of agent’s fees and statements of their costs.
Level of description
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