Shooting the Messenger

Year 2021

Date To Issue
05/01/21 Lewell-Buck
CC: Robason
Rumney
Hoy
Emma,The zipped files are for reference; to back up what I have said.Nicola, the current Monitoring Officer and John Rumney, the acting Head of Legal Services have been copied in so that they may be appraised of the current situation and I have sent a copy to Alison Hoy of Customer Advocacy (CA) so that she can pass it to Mr Swales successor when he or she arrives.It appears that the staff who were happy to give misinformation the Local Government Ombudsman (LGO) were also the source of the false allegation being made against the good people of South Shields and it has been going on for a long time:
Nil Response
04/02/21 Robason
CC: Evening
Chronicle
Apologies, I should have copied you into the email I sent to Chronicle Live yesterday- please see below. My excuse was that I could not make up my mind whether to copy just you or all the those that Leah had copied into her note of the 24-Dec-20.
No Response expected.
12/03/21 Melanie
CC: Lewell-Buck MP
Trevelyan MP
John Rumney
Hoy
Robason
Cllr Anglin
Mansbridge
Cunningham
Johnson
 I remember people commenting at the time, was that UK Docks were forced to stop work on their shed in mid September 2013 and it coincided with time the Principal Planning Officer cutting or dissing you because you asked him to confirm the common view that the shed was 3m taller than planned. Whoever told UK Docks to stop work had the upper-hand because they, like us, realised that the passing of the set of drawings was a bit naughty and Mr Cunningham was party to it because he sent you, and the main protesters including me, the misleading plans given to him by UK Docks.
No Response expected.
12/04/21 Cllr Francis
CC: Todd
Hoy
Robason
Johnson
While I was trying to establish that UK Docks had not been given permission retrospectively for the enclosure (shed) on their slipway off River Drive, I think it was you who pointed out that I should not be writing to the Head of Legal Services but to Nicola Robason. The job of Monitoring Officer had been given to her and for the first time for many years, December 2019, I got an honest response from the Council when she said: “I can confirm that the Council as Local Planning Authority has not received a retrospective planning application from UK Docks. On reflection I should have have thanked the pair of you but what I really wanted was an admission that the shed was actually nearly 3 meters taller than planned.
There was no response from N Robason or the Council until 29-Apr-21.

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