Misdirection by Alison Hoy on behalf of Customer Advocacy, No 8.
In January 2018, I wrote: Dear Alison,
I wrote to you at the end of November for the email address of the Head of Legal Service and received a rather strange reply. If you look carefully at the Ombudsman’s findings of the 15-Apr-15 you will see that paragraphs 30-38 are riddled with misrepresentations of the plans and drawings and I blame your Senior Planning Officer.
Alison duly responded, 18-Jan-18: Dear Mr Dawson
To confirm the Council’s position, we will not re-open or open a new complaint regarding this email as the issues are the same as your original complaint to us some years ago.
If you wish to seek legal advice your legal representative should contact our Legal Department as advise previously. I will not be forwarding on your email or drawings as they remain the subject or your historic complaint. If you are unhappy with the Ombudsman’s investigation of your complaint you should raise that with them directly.
You can see by the length of this letter and all the cross references needed to make my point clear that I had told the Corporate Lead, Mrs H Johnson, that I had consulted a solicitor but she had not made this clear to Alison by the time she wrote to me in January 2018. I had also explained to the Corporate Lead very precisely how the Ombudsman had been misled in Misdirection No. 4.
The plain fact remains that the shed is nearly 3m taller than planned and first, Mr Wilson tried to hide this by passing dodgy drawings to the Council but all the Council did was to replace those, with an equally suspect one and by manipulation of the complaints procedure were able to paint a false picture to the Ombudsman which still remains.