The council's revised scheme reflects a more honest approach.
The justice secretary, Michael Gove, has also signalled his concern at the revised scheme.
Ken Meeson, cabinet member for children's services at Solihull council, says: "Most carers were not affected or were slightly better off under the revised scheme.
"The sight left me in despair," he wrote, having seen Hadid's revised scheme at an exhibition at the Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery.
"The sight left me in despair," he writes, having seen the revised scheme at a current exhibition at Tokyo's Opera City Art Gallery.
The revised scheme hits the rich hardest, but also requires a substantial increase in the basic rate of tax to 30%, as well as lifting national insurance to 12% of all income.
The revised scheme will only go ahead if planning permission is granted, but the company is hopeful that the support of local residents in agreeing to co-finance the project will help to tip the balance.
In the new, revised scheme – call it Plan B – the building would still be heavily altered, its second, third and fourth storeys turned into new flats; but some form of pub would be retained at ground level.
A revised scheme for new firefighters was successfully introduced in 2006, but the new proposals will eventually apply to all firefighters, with protections built in for those nearing retirement.
The letter from Steve Russell, chairman of the remuneration committee, urges Network Rail's public members – a group set up as a watchdog for consumers' interests – to endorse the revised scheme that raises the directors' base salary and introduces "performance-related retention payments".
But this was overturned in December, when a revised scheme was accepted by Mr Pickles.
