Attendees included leader Joseph Ejiofor, chief executive Zina Etheridge and cabinet members Noah Tucker, Charles Adje and Patrick Berryman.
Leaked reports from a December 11, 2018, meeting of Haringey Council s Strategic Property Board show attendees - including several senior councillors - were aware of discussions about purchasing Alexandra House.
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Cllr Berryman – cabinet member for finance at the time – said he still had his papers from the meeting, with handwritten annotations.
He also had notes from an internal Cabinet meeting a month later, on January 8, 2019, showing senior councillors had again discussed “buying Alex House”.
“I was in favour of the purchase, since we already occupied it as a tenant and, as a council with a goal to insource, would likely be growing our workforce,” he said.
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