After first turning down the application, the Building Department approved it on Tuesday.
He said he had always tried to put family first, turning down promotions that would have required considerable traveling.
The correspondence shows Hague's attempt to get Ashcroft into the Lords was first turned down in 1999.
Convicted in New Jersey in 1988, he was first turned down for parole in 1995 and given a new eligibility date of November 1996.
When he first turned down the appeal on Friday, Mr. McDonnell noted that appeals courts have upheld her sentence and that "no medical professional has concluded that Teresa Lewis meets the medical or statutory definition of mentally retarded".
Mr. Sass first turned down a chance to get into the Madoff funds in the 1980s when Mr. Madoff, through a representative, refused to tell him how he made his returns.
He says the projects would be far cheaper and more productive than the £30bn Severn Barrage scheme which was first turned down by the government in 2010 amid huge opposition from many environmentalists.
The industry minister, Jim Prentice, first turned down last month a $1.3 billion takeover bid from Alliant Techsystems, a munitions and rocket component maker based near Minneapolis, for M.D.A.'s space division.
He has been touted for a move to Europe since the age of 14 – when he first turned down Real Madrid – and Barcelona have pulled off a mouthwatering coup.
