The residents fighting hard to prevent the Holiday Inn monstrosity know that the planning officers are not on their side; after all, Messrs Stallwood, Elliott and team have had 24 months to bond and socialise with the Chinese developers!
So, when the resident's action group made an F.O.I. request for "any and all documents, whether hand-written, in hard copy or electronically recorded" they expected that the documents would be delivered on the deadline date of the 14th September....not 16 days later on the Decision Day.
Mr. Stallwood and the Council Leader need to explain whether this was deliberate delaying-despite regular prompting-to prevent the resident's experts from having more than just a few hours to examine, in depth, complex documents dating back two years.
Tonight, Mr Stallwood needs to deal with this accusation of breach of good faith.
This is unbeliveable. If the leader doesn't have the balls to deal with this then her deputy should
ReplyDeleteClear message from Hornton Street Planning to residents. Fuck off.
DeleteThis is shocking. What a way to consult and co operate with residents.
ReplyDelete"WE AGREE TO LISTEN BUT NOT TO HEAR"
Cllr Weale (Cabinet Member)
I am sure if Messrs Stallwood or Elliott lived near this proposed monster they would be up in arms. They have no interest in the welfare of residents.
ReplyDeleteThe bigger surprise is that you got any information at all! RBKC is spending significant sums of taxpayers' money to prevent information coming out in FOI requests about why it became embroiled in a neighbour dispute on behalf of a well-connected resident at a considerable cost to the taxpayer. Private Eye wrote about these FOI requests in its Rotten Boroughs column in mid-August, and previously in January this year (after having also written about the dispute itself in October 2017 and January 2018).
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Private Eye issues: 1455 "[200] Grand Piano"; 1460 "Ill-Tempered Clavier"; 1461 "Chopin and Changin' Award"; and 1476 "Bum Note".
The big question is: "Does Chief Executive Quirk have any influence or control over his organisation and staff?"
ReplyDeleteThe answer seems to be "No"
The more fundamental question is "Does Cllr Campbell care whether Chief Executive Quirk have influence or control over his staff?"
DeleteThe Cabinet and most if not all the councillors have no control over council officers, including the Chief Executive. They don't understand that a councillor's job is to control these people, not be controlled by them.
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