By reference to drawings approved by either the Tyne and Wear Development Corporation in 1966 (8296/2) or the Planning Manager for the Council in October 2013 (8296/14) one can see that a Senior Planning Officer has been giving misinformation/misrepresentation to the Ombudsman. The complaint was clearly laid out by the Ombudsman in her first paragraph:-
1. The complainant, whom I shall refer to as Mr X, complains the Council has wrongly allowed a developer to build and keep a boat shed despite many public objections. In particular he says:-
• It wrongly said the boat shed conformed with approved plans
• It has not taken enforcement action against the boat shed
• There has been a lack of information and public consultation
As you can see by the time it came (for her) to sum up, the story had completely changed from fact (the three items highlighted in paragraph 1) to fiction and she found for UK Docks, and we were falsely accused of making allegations. In Part 15, I will illustrate how the corruption was spread from the Town Hall to the MP’s Office on Westoe.* 1) the Principal Planning Officer. He never said it was ‘legal’ but he did not take the trouble to correct Mr Haig who is now a Director of HB Hydraulics when he said it to imply that mean the shed had been approved.
2) the Senior Planning Officer who spoke to the Ombudsman.