2016-2018

Gill Hayton, a Council Solicitor, had been misinformed by the same group of people that gave misinformation/misrepresentation (lied) to the Local Government Ombudsman. The Chair of the Tyne Gateway Assn and the Principal Planning Officer contrived, with the help of Cllr Anglin to hide the truth about UK Dock’s Enclosure (shed) on their slipway off River Drive.

The truth was that the shed was nearly three meters taller than permitted and I very carefully explained that to her but in these parlous times she was probably presented the choice between accepting what the plans and drawings say or backing the fraudsters led by Councillor Anglin and the Planning Officer. She did that by repeating the misinformation given to the Ombudsman.

She did say that I could ask the Head of Legal Services to review her decision if I was dissatisfied and he was asked to look at her response but I suspected it would end up in the waste bin so it  was published.

It remains there along with the original complaint and will remain there until the corruption in the Town Hall is tackled.

Year 2018 Description/Dialogues
E/L_Dates Document and URL
2018
12-Dec
Response from Gill Hayton – decoded on 14th December:
In which repeats the main fraudulent misrepresentations given to the LGO
11-Dec Email to Council Solicitor
23-Nov Width in Detail
22-Nov
Hi Paul,
You received a copy because I put the local people who had protested from
the early days into the blind copy line (BCC:). It's a standard method
used by clubs and small organisations for distributing important notices.
There are quite a lot of you at the moment and if anyone wants to write to you all with any more misinformation about Mr Wilson's boat shed they can make their own list.
05-Nov Figure 1
30-Oct To Chair of TGA
26-Oct Cllr A: Dear Gill Hayton
22-Oct Cllr A to Angela(2)  Measurement Wrong
17-Oct
To D and J: "Anyway one of the Council's Solicitors has eventually
responded to my complaint about Cllr Anglin and I think the tipping point
was when I mentioned Haig and Watson. There are a lot of things wrong with
their joint development 71/72 Greens Place. The roof top balcony for a
start and I took that to the LGO and discovered that they had been
misinformed over that as well. I've been through the process again and
worked out how they cover their tracks. We are not changing history it is the Council rewriting it with the aid of the LGO which is central to the corruption taking place.
15-Oct to TGA Secretary
12-Oct Encoded Acknowledgement from Council Solicitor. She never explained why the Council started using Egress to write a simple acknowledge letter.

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12-Oct to Angela Gazette Article
01-Oct to Emma LGO Details
20-Sep to D and J  – If the Council had any approved plans that supported UK Docks claim that the shed was ‘legal’ we would have received copies by the time of our AGM, it was two months after the first frame went up after all.
19-Sep 19-Sep Dear Monitoring Officer, I have a complaint about the conduct of Councillor John Anglin re the Town Hall meeting 25-Nov-13.
A meeting in November 2013 with the Council was arranged by Councillor Anglin, about the height and width of the cover on UK Docks slipway on River Drive in South Shields and to get any evidence that it had been built to plan but we were told that it was compliant i.e. it had been approved and the meeting promptly moved on to speculation about further expansion of the yard.
It appeared that there was no agenda for the meeting (one could say that there was none needed as the meeting had been arranged to determine whether the cover was built to authorised plans or not), there were no minutes taken (attachment 1) and no documentation provided to back up the claim that it met the second condition of the grant in 1996. It transpired that it did not; it was built withoutplanning permission being both too high and too wide.
No answer – not even acknowleged.
Conduct of Cllr A to MO
18-Sep Message classification: Protected

Thankyou for your email and your subsequent emails concerning your complaint about Councilor Anglin. I am reviewing your correspondence and will
respond to you in due course concerning your complaint.

Yours sincerely

Gill Hayton
Solicitor & Deputy Monitoring offcer
Legal services

South Tyneside Council, Town Hall & Civic Offices, Westoe Road, South Shields, Tyne & Wear NE33 2RL

From: mick.dawson@theharbourew.co.uk
Sent: 19 September 2018 16:32
To: monitoring officer
CC: Emma Lewell-Buck MP, Stephen Hepburn MP, Cllr Angela Hamilton; Dave and Julie Routlage: Melanie Todd
Subject: Councillor John Anglin
I have a complaint about the conduct of Councilar John Anglin the Town Hall meeting 25-Nov-12,

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E/L Date Document and URL
23-Feb Response to Breaches
22-Feb Dear Paul – Ignored Breaches in Planning
02-Feb Alison’s List
27-Jan Further to letter 17-Jan-17
18-Jan Alison says write or phone as they will ignore email.
10-Jan Case ZA4803 – STC and UK Docks v The People.

2017

The Council have have told the MP – see response from MP re JA, 6-Sep-17 – that they will no longer correspond on previous issues relating to the boat yard and its development and will now only address any new issues which arise. This appears to include misconduct by STC staff and Councillors.

E/L Date Document and URL
22-Dec CllrA Warning Notice to MP‘s Office Manager
17-Dec Dear Paul Copied to CA, MP etc.
08-Dec toOfficeELB08-Dec-17.pdf – copy Sept 6
01-Dec from Customer Advocate (Protect !)
top half
30-Nov from Customer Advocate (Protect !)
bottom half
23-Nov to You and Yours and
Photo of Shed
6-Sep Response from MP re JA
6-Sep To the Office Manager for MP for South Shields
11-Aug Later message from  Paul 12.25
Reply by CA for JA 11:31
Exchange with Paul 11th Aug 2017 10:35
8-Aug Dear Cllr Anglin – details
and
covering email
22-Jun to Office Managers RA and EK for ELB and AMT
19-Jun Reply from CA
Dear Mr Dawson
Thank you for your letter to the Chief Executive, Martin Swales, dated 26 May 2017 which was received 13 June 2017. Your letter has been forwarded to our team in line with your current contact restrictions regarding issues raised regarding the UK Docks boat shed.
I must advise you that this letter is raising your historic complaint again which has been thoroughly investigated by the Council and the Local Government Ombudsman, therefore will be placed on file.
Yours sincerely
15-Jun Stream started after meeting Emma draws to a close.
Conseqences of Misuse by the STC of Section F.
27-May Letter to CEO forward by email to offices of MP
 26-May Letter to CEO about the conduct of HJ and GS handed across the counter at the Town Hall on 26th May.
Placed on file 19-Jun-17
29-Mar Covering email to Office of MP
about the
Conduct of 1st Case Officer 
14-Feb Informed that 272189 is not the correct time-sheet
Also discovered Planning Officer behind all the confusion is Gary Simmonette who has not recorded Sunday working 18-Dec16.

Visit to Town Hall 10th February 17 which established that no incident was recorded for Sunday Working on 18-Dec-2016 and that the time sheet that I was instructed to use regarding noise, was another  complainant’s time sheet.

E/L Date
2017
Contents (Date and Description)
Document and URL
8-Feb no record of noise  or Sunday working
No record of breach of Condition 5
7-Feb Kevin Burrell closes 272891
– Still no record of noise on Sunday 18-Dec
no record of breach of Condition 5
6-Feb Kevin Burrell and 300150
A time sheet for 272189 was issued.
23-Jan Clampdown again
21-Jan Cllr Anglin ducks out and accepts the fact that Sunday working has not been registered.
20-Jan Email to Cllr Anglin re Condition 2 and 5
17-Jan Mr Dawson further letter re restrictions 17 01 17
Based on the fallacy that the Ombudsman was not misinformed and misuse of a procedure base on Section F
3-Jan Clampdown again
Attachments
CA 21-Dec on behalf of GS &
HJ 5-Oct-16
10-Jan Noise Complaint – Initiation of 272189
300150 was raised by CA and was irrelevant.
Ferry does not fit.
9-Jan To Cllr A- relabelling Complaints as Allegations
9-Jan Sundays Email Trail 20-Dec to 09-Jan

2016

Worked out that the suggestion by the Solicitor that we go for ‘the Council misled the Ombudsman’ was sound because it was easy to prove, the authorised drawings say one thing but the South Tyneside Council tell the Ombudsman is written down in their findings and it is usually a direct contradiction.

 E/L Date Contents Description Document and URL
Y2016
23-Dec Critique of AH response
Time line – Cond 5 and Noise 
Introduction of 5th condition into complaint about 2nd.
21-Dec Cond 5 Pass forward to AH
20-Dec Using the shed on a Sunday
16-Dec Complaint: 248789 – Unplanned Development on River Drive
9-Dec Stage 2 248789
To G Mansbridge – redirected to CA
26-Oct Establish contact with Emma’s Office Manager Rebeaca Atkinson
21-Oct Suggestion by Jooles to write to Emma MP
20-Oct Letter to ELB MP – ZA4803
5-Oct HJ Modified response Corporate Lead,
Strategy and Performance and plain copy.
2-Sep MD Letter to Corporate Lead
and
Letter to CA re: letter to HJ
1-Aug Response from Corporate Lead, Strategy and Performance –
There is no evidence to suggest that there has been deliberate misinformation provided by Council officers to the Local Government Ombudsman. Plainer copy
Section F
8-Jul Letter to CEO
I ask you to look again at this because there is a clear contradiction between what the Council were telling the LGO and what is known. Why your staff should misrepresent the facts to the LGO is for you to determine. That they have misinformed the LGO should be admitted and corrected and that is what this letter is about.

Letter from solicitor confirming that the Council had mislead the Ombudsman.
Permission to extend shed given 1-Feb-16.

Day-Month Description/Dialogues
1-Feb ST/0461/14/FUL is given permission.
26-Jan advice from Peter Dunn and Co
4-Jan Attachment 6 – No letter
24-Dec Request for Letter to MP
9-Dec From Customer Advocates

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