The chairman of the council accepted Spurs Tickets days before the old oak | London

The chairman of the Enfield Council is under pressure to dismiss itself from decisions about the ownership plans of Tottenham HotspurAfter accepting Match Tickets days before the cuffing of an old oak by a company that is financially connected to the football club.

Labor’s Ergin Erbil was the public voice of the Outrage of the council On April 3. A 500-year-old old oak by contractor of Mitchells & Butlers Retail (MBR), the pub chain, in which a Toby Carvery is leased on land from the London district.

In A Explanation of gifts and hospitality Erbil announced that on March 23, he accepted five free tickets from Spurs’ Charity Arm, Tottenham Hotspur FC Foundation, to see a friendly veteran game between the Club and AC Milan.

Spurs and MBR are owned in the investment company EnIC. Last month the Guardian unveiled Spurs had the opportunity to lease the country of MBR Where the remains of the confused tree are.

In February, Enfield Spurs gave the building permit for the construction of a women’s football training academy on 17 hectares of adjacent land on a former golf course in Whitewebbs Park. The club plans to the country involved by the Council in a 2 million. -Pfund contract to rent.

During the game in Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, the Spurs Legends won 6-2, Erbil talked to the club’s executive, Donna-Maria Cullen, but he was not used by the club and they neither discussed the WithwebBS development nor the rental option on the Toby Carvery website.

Erbil and another Enfield city council accepted the tickets after the building permit was granted the Spurs for the Whitewebbs development -a decision in which none of the city council was involved.

Erbil said every proposal for a connection between his participation in the game and the highlighting of the oak realized “in the conspiracy theoretical area”.

He said: “I reject the idea that participation in a charity with other stakeholders of the community affects my integrity. The event had no connection to the municipal business and no influence on future decisions that affect Spurs or MBR.”

However, the activists said that hospitality had raised questions about the relationship between Spurs and the Council and asked Erbil to dismiss themselves from future decisions that concern the Real Estate Plans of Club properties in the district.

Ed Allnutt, the secretary of the Guardian of Whitewebbs, a group that is committed to coping with the area as a public park, said: “Erbil claims that there is a lack of participation in the development of the park. This is not credible. It is a great development in the districts where he has the advice of the council.

A job London Spokesman said that Erbil would get back from possible future decisions about the development and potential change of the country rented by Mitchells & Butler to Spurs.

However, Erbil said that such decisions were for his colleagues in the planning committee and in the property and the legal team. A spokesman for the Enfield Council said: “Erbil acted continuously with integrity and transparency. We will not go into speculation about whether he would get back from hypothetical situations at some point.”

Tree specialists who were commissioned by Spurs as part of his Whitewebbs development last year came to the conclusion that the Toby Carvery Oak was A “fine specimen” That would live at least another 50 years. MBR said it was felled for security reasons because it was dead or ill – a claim that was rejected by activists and experts who estimated the tree with 960,000 GBP this week due to its ecological importance.

Spurs’ tree survey suggested that the oak in the country outside the area rented by MBR was on the council. Erbil said that his officers had “confirmed 100%” that the fake tree was on the council rented by MBR.

He said: “The idea that the tree was removed to facilitate a future road for Spurs is factually wrong and geographically indifferent.”

He added: “The Enfield Council took legal action against Mitchells & Butlers because he reduced the tree without permission what violated its rental agreement. As a result, the advice has stopped accepting the rent from them.”

As part of the rental agreement, MBR undertook to protect the landscape and only carry out work for trees with permission of the Council, which it did not aim for before the case of the oak.

A separate Forstwirtswirtschaftskommission request In the manufacture of the tree takes place.

A spokesman said that the charity organization Match Erbil had visited accumulated money for his foundation, which promotes local projects for well -being, employment and education.