The Council has been very reasonable about this. It has not used bully boy tactics and, if anything, has given a lot more in terms of time than it needed to. Richard Spencer-Breeze has not been at all adult and reasoned; he has attempted to try the Council in the court of public opinion -quite successfully if half the comments on this thread are anything to go by - given only his own, very selective, side of the matter, and if anything has acted like a child having a tantrum when told it is time for bed. And all of it could have been avoided if he had used the six years' grace he had been given to find a permanent home for the collection when he was well aware that this would happen.
I don't want to see CAHC closed. Far from it. But do not go blaming the Council for a situation that has been created by the idiocy of the owner.