I am not certain as to what your knowledge is of the ongoing (since September2013) concerns and complaints  from the residents of the area surrounding the River Drive site of UK Docks and visitors to the area. Living in Greens Place I am very aware of the tourist and visitor traffic through the Lawe Top area and the serious concerns they have raised in direct support to that of those who live in the area. I am more than happy to supply you with a timeline and overview and the website address for you to see the depth of upset and seriousness of the situation.

On 3rd April 2014, I along with other representatives handed in a petition of 238 signatures addressed to yourself(it has since been added to bringing the number of signatories to not far short of 300) Democratic services took away those signatories democratic rights by choosing to not give the petition to yourself the addressee but to Mr Mansbridge Head of Development Services instead. The petition was addressed to yourself as we had already been given inaccurate and conflicting information by Mr Cunningham, Mr Atkinson, Mr Bostock, Mr Rutherford and Mr Mansbridge, and were in agreement that we as Council Tax paying residents were being sidelined, fobbed off and lied to by those people whose jobs were paid for by us and whose role it was to listen to and consider our concerns and issues and to represent us fairly.

It is mine and many other residents opinion that from the treatment we have received which has at the least been appalling and highly distressing, we cannot trust STMBC Officers to carry out correct procedure with due respect to the residents and their opinions and rights, and that we have no faith in the Planning procedure.

You will see from the email stream below that, Mr Simmonette who is the designated officer has not replied to the first email, Mr Atkinson has fobbed me off and not answered my questions in the second email and Mr Mansbidge has not answered from nearly a week ago. Their behaviour is not professional or fair handed and is adding to the stress and upset we are facing with this situation, affecting personally my Health and Wellbeing quite significantly.

I would hope that you will treat this matter with urgency and address the matters which I have raised (briefly) in this email. We have previously asked that work be halted while consultation and reviews were carried out, and this has been ignored. We have in writing from Mr Mansbridge that the facts we have been stating since September 2013 are in fact ( after a long and complicated inquiry by STMBC) fact and that the ‘shed’ has not been built to plan, but STMBC are choosing not to enforce any measures on the developers. And now with that ‘shed’ still under construction (since 5th September 2013) we are given a brief period of time to object to further large scale inappropriate development of the site including an extension to the ‘shed’ that is not built to plan. Please halt all work and live planning applications to enable a complete review of the situation including consultations and reviews.

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Melanie Todd(Miss)

Ref:  Email Stream