You will say of course that this is not new information and continue to file my letters away but you cannot deny that the yard was closed for a number of months in late 2013.
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to make a correction to Part 2 of Shed and Corruption . It was Mandy Ali who was handling my complaint against the redevelopment of 71 Greens Place not Adele. She called me Mr B, a bit of a pretence I thought at the time as I was the only one who complained to the Ombudsman about the Haig’s ‘Ponderosa’. The Council ensured that came to nothing because they deleted ST/0479/13/FUL and replaced it with ST/0479/13/HFUL.
I was not the only one who complained about UK Docks Shed. There were at about thirty at each of the Public meetings:
- 9th November 2013 – Mr Haig was elected to the post of treasurer of the Tyne Gateway Assn – he did not declare his interest in UK Docks;
- 3rd March 2013 where the Residents decided to raise a Petition.
We managed to collect about 300 signatures for the Petition but I was the only one to complain to the Ombudsman and that was only once. As I said to Mr Swales, your CEO at the time, 8-Jul-16:
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.
The reason I asked him to look again was because I had advised him two years earlier, 7-Jul-14: On the 5th Sept 2013 work started at UK Docks premises on River Drive to build a slipway shed length 22.3m, width 13.1m and height at end facing River Drive 15.5m.
On 27th Sept an application was received in the planning office from the agents for UK Docks, Messrs Maughan, Reynolds Partnership Ltd to meet conditions of a previously granted application ST/0242/96 for a slipway shed length 22.3m, width 12.2m and height at end facing River Drive 12.5m.
This discrepancy is still not acknowledged by your Council after 9 months of work on this site.
We are now back with your Corporate Lead again whose actual words, 1-Aug-16, were: There is no evidence to suggest that there has been deliberate misinformation provided by Council officers to the Local Government Ombudsman, Neither do I have evidence to question the content of the Ombudsman’s investigation.
I have taken you back to my introduction of what will become; Shed and Corruption – Part 4, and you will have to ask her what she means by ‘deliberate’ but generally people misinform the Ombudsman to make sure that a complaint will not be upheld. They also know that they they will not be held to account because there will be people prepared to misapply various codes of conduct to ‘shoot the Messenger’.
Yours sincerely.
Michael Dawson
Micheal I have experienced a similar issues with council complaint corruption. Then abusing contact restrictions to close down and silence the victim.
Hi Paul, thank you for your support.
Hi Paul,
Don’t worry, she’s what my mother would have called a nasty piece of work and I have marked your emails as spam. I get up to half a dozen a day.
I’d forgotten to include her in the list of Cc’s so I used the opportunity of commenting on Part 8 to pass a copy of it to her.
When she first slagged us off in 2015 she did not copy me or anyone else in and I did not find out about it for six months:
The matters and allegations raised by your constituent are well documented and have been subject to a number of enquiries from Mr Dawson and other local residents over a lengthy period of time.
As I do not want to be accused of hypocrisy, I like to make sure that she is aware my views.
The Council are operating their own Complaints Procedure corruptly. Is aking them why they persist in doing it unreasonable bevaviour?
Defined in Section 7: Complaints Policy 2019v1.5 :
7. Managing unacceptable and/or unreasonable behaviour South Tyneside Council is committed to providing an inclusive and accessible service for all of our customers, but we also need to ensure we provide a safe working environment for our staff.