Thursday, 7 June 2012
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Howling at the Moon in a Posh Frock
Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Council House Sales in Hartlepool, in the 1970’s
A few months ago I started to do research into the Sale of Council House Property’s , I even involved my Labour Member of Parliament for Hartlepool , Iain Wright M.P. unfortunately , he appears to have lost interest in what I though would have been of worthwhile social interest, after all , I always though that the Labour Party were instrumental and very passionate in supporting the re-housing of people living in slum and poor housing conditions, and I, could not understand “why,” Hartlepool Borough Council
, politically controlled by the Labour Party for over 60 years + would allow any such sales of Local Council Houses in the period, I am Interested in, the 1970’s. without a very good reason ?
I can't help but wonder, how selling off essentially needed rented council housing, was going to help the real housing shortage in the 1970’s, and I was very interested, as I feel many more would be, to know what Special needs or qualification would a weekly rent paying council house tenant require, to be allowed to purchase their Council House property, prior to the Introduction in 1980 of the Right to Buy by the Margaret Thatcher Government.
I would have thought that Councils, especially Labour Controller Councils such as Hartlepool, would have had a very active and open policy to discourage any Council House Tenant from applying to buy their Council House Property, I thought they would have tried to retain all the much needed council houses for people, still living in damp unhealthy and unsuitable poor living Conditions, and avoid selling them off, to the more affluent Council House Rent paying tenants,
Surely., I thought, if a Rent Paying Council House Tenant could afford a “Mortgage ” in the 1970’s they would have been told by the Council to go and buy your house in the Open Market Place, then they would have vacated their present Council House, making the Council Property vacant and available to another deserving family, on the Council House Waiting List, and would discourage a sitting Council House tenant to purchase their Council House which would diminish the Local Council House Stock,
I though, that was the Idea of building Council Homes, built for the People unable to afford a Private Purchase.
My requests for information was not politically motivated, I simply wanted to know “How” and “Why” it was done, I am not suggesting ? That you could buy your Council House by a Nod and a Wink, or knowing the right people, in the right placers, or what some may might think, “Brown Envelopes” or having Uncles and Cousins on the Council, or even knowing and being involved with some men, who had a funny habit of running around their back gardens in female frocks and howling loudly at the time of a Full Moon, ? Don’t laugh, this is Hartlepool. We have more than our fair share of, shall I say, unusual People, even some, dressing as “Baboons” and being elected to Political Office,
I was simply asking “How” a Council House tenant , managed to purchase their rented Council House, and how many did so in the 1970’s.
When Council Houses were at a Premium , there was at that time, and still is I believe, a very Long Council House Waiting List ?
You don’t have to be a Rocket Scientist to answer those two questions,
These Freedom of Information requests to Hartlepool Borough Council , for answers to my reasonable questions were not answered , nor have they had the courtesy to acknowledged my request for a Review,
This suspicious, arrogant and conceited conduct is not unusual, and certainly Not what a law abiding Hartlepool citizen should receive, after all my Council Tax, helps pay these Council Employees, does it not ?
But of late we are seeing a couple of disturbing trends appearing in Hartlepool, and highlighted on a regular basis, in that well known magazine “Private Eye” and the only other decent local news is published on the Internet site, High Tax Hartlepool / The Hartlepool Post, http://www.hartlepoolpost.co.uk/
take a look, if you really want to know what is going on and read about Council Corruption in Hartlepool as I have said before, Corruption is endemic in Hartlepool Borough Council, unfortunately the Hartlepool Public are Lied to on a Regular Basis, and the locals, Religiously re -elect the same scoundrels, thieves, swindlers Liar and cheats,
It appears that Hartlepool cannot no longer find a few Honest Local people willing and able to serve the Public of Hartlepool as Councillors without receiving extravagant expenses, the times of Fred Jaquess, Billy Emerson, Bill Pounder, Harry Lightfoot, and many, many more, who thought it an honour and a privilege to be elected to Public Office are long gone, we all are the poorer for this unhappy situation, all we have at the moment are would be opportunists, political wannabies, who will be seeking office again in May, for personal reasons, self interest, self enrichment, and financial gain, more snouts around the trough,
few if any have a Job, or have even ever had a job, not because there is very little work available in the North-East, but simply because being a Councillor in Hartlepool is better than working for a living, if you don’t believe me, ask the Mayor.
while it is difficult to believe that Members of Parliament and Town Councillors need no qualifications No basic educational or even any work experience, and many don’t posses any skills that would help them to do their job, what many do posses in abundance, is a nasty arrogant attitude, they actually seriously think that they can do no wrong? And most certainly will not admit any mistake, like closing the Hospital, it was not my fault, is the cry, what is even more alarming is that they have the authority to pass the buck, delegate their functions to even less qualified and experienced Council Staff, the Council Planning Committee for example, does this often, particularly whenever any Controversial Planning application are submitted.
However , I still remain hopeful, that this bad dream will end soon, maybe in Springtime or even Maytime, but then I’ve always been a dreamer, and I still like Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, and who can forget Limelight, or Al Bowlly.
I’m pleased to hear that HighTax Hartlepool / ,The Hartlepool Post,
are to launch their own on-line newspaper in direct competition with the Hartlepool Mail, I wish them well .
Sunday, 26 February 2012
More Nails in the Coffin of Democracy------Hartlepool Style.
Sunday, 26 February 2012
I have been asked by the Internet team members of “Write to Them” if I have received any reply to my recent Letter sent to my Member of Parliament for Hartlepool, Iain Wright M.P. unfortunately I have had to say “NO” only an acknowledgement , saying my comments have been noted ?
“NO” answers to “ANY” of my questions, I am “NOT” saying nor am I implying that my M.P. Iain Wright, Member of Parliament for Hartlepool, is no longer Seriously interested in my Allegations of Criminal Fraudulent Misconduct in Public Office. by Personnel in the Legal and Planning Departments of Hartlepool Borough Council, and Officials of Land Registry, Durham, but to ensure, that there is a record of my Criminal Allegations, Unlike some Officials of Hartlepool Borough Council and Land Registry, Durham, who, both have a very Irritating habit of Misplacing or Destroying Legal Documents , I wish to have “ALL” of my Allegations of Criminal Documents , Recorded for Future Reference on this Wide World Internet Site, it is for that the reason that I now Publish this Letter I recently sent to Iain Wright M.P. Member of Parliament for Hartlepool, who can not say, in the future, he was totally unaware of “ANY” of my Serious Allegations of Fraudulent and Criminal Misconduct in Public Office reported to him
The old saying goes: All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Lord Justice Mummery recently said on the Internet
I believe that if a public authority was deceived into granting planning permission by a “Dishonest” planning application, and that public authority behaved in a similar deceitful way, its planning decisions would rightly be set aside by the court as an unlawful abuse of power
From: WriteToThem
Date: 02/21/12 10:58:01
To: Alan Harvey Flounders
Subject: Did your MP reply to your letter?  
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Tuesday 7 February 2012
Dear Iain Wright, M.P.
Monday, 6 February 2012
Dear Iain Wright, M.P. Member of Parliament for Hartlepool.
Thank You for your reply, received to-day, to my letter Regarding the
Sale of Council House Land and Property from 1970 up to 1980, before
the “ Right to Buy your Council House “was Introduced by Margaret
Thatcher’s Conservative Government, regarding my Freedom of
Information requests to Hartlepool Borough Council, on the number and
legitimacy of the Sale of Freehold Council House Properties, and what
was Required of a Sitting Council House Rent Paying Tenant to be
allowed to Buy their Council House Property, in the Periods 1970 till
1980, and “NOT” as you stated in your letter of reply, the years
1970-1973,
1.
I was always led to believe, that prior to the Legal Right to Buy your
Council House introduced by the then Prime Minister, Margaret
Thatcher, it was very difficult if not impossible for a Rent paying
Tenant of any Council House Property to be given the legal right to
purchase their Freehold Council Owned Land and Property prior to 1980.
(a)
I wanted to know what qualified a Council House Tenant to be able to
Purchase their Freehold Rented Property, between the years 1970 to
1980 ,at a time of acute shortages of available Council House
Properties to Rent.?
A fair and simple question ? Why refuse to answer , If not to deceive?
(b)
Was this legal entitlement to Purchase their Homes available prior to
1980, to “ALL” Council House Tenants, in Hartlepool, and if “NOT” why
“NOT”
Another fair and simple question.? Why refuse to answer , If not to
deceive,
(c )
Question , as was my request for the numbers of Sales if “ANY” in the
years prior to 1980.when there was, and still is, a long waiting list
of desperate people living in unsuitable conditions and even slum
area’s, who where patiently awaiting their entitlement and opportunity
to rent a Council House Property,?
2.
In trying to seek further information, I drew your attention to the
following found on the Internet, questions and answers in the House of
Commons on the purchase of Council House Properties from the Housing
and Local Government Minister Mr Greenwood, ?
Mr. Spriggs
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government to what extent local
housing authorities can sell their houses without his sanction and
whether he will take steps to require any such authority to refund all
the housing subsidies received by them, following the sale of any such
property. ?
(b)
Mr. Greenwood
Local authorities require “my” consent under Section 104 of the Housing
Act, 1957 to the sale of any house on land required or appropriated for
the purposes of Part V of the Act and on which Exchequer subsidy has
been paid. This covers the vast majority of council houses and it is
under this power that I have continued the general consent to the sale
of houses, subject to the conditions set out in Circular No.24/ 67.
A person shall “NOT” be entitled under this Part of this Act to acquire
the freehold of property or an extended lease of the property where the
freehold is vested in a housing society as defined by section 1(7) of
the Housing Act 1964 and where the cost of acquisition or construction
of the property has been financed by a housing society in whole or in
part by means of loans from the housing corporation or from a” “local
Authority,” ?
(c )
I have further searched the Internet, in reference to the Housing Act
1957, Part V Housing Act 1957 (now repealed) which the Hartlepool
F.O.I. Officer claimed, Granted Hartlepool Council the option to sell
Council Houses, without success, (apart from the above,) in addition I
have been unable to find Reference to “ANY” Statutory Requirement to
Retain any Financial Documentary Details of the Sale of Freehold
Council House Property, for a Minimum Period of (6) six years, and
after a such a period all files are and have been destroyed ? Where
does it say this ?
(d)
Under the circumstances I can’t agree with your good self when you
say in your letter to me, “you do not believe there is anything
Sinister or Conspiratorial or even Incompetent about this” , in
deciding what financial documents to retain on the ground of space or
“Legal” requirements, ?
3.
I also thought that you would have been interested to know “IF” the
Right To Buy before 1980, was available to “ALL” Hartlepool Council
House Tenants, and if “ NOT” why “NOT” a serious question as I always
had been led to believe that “ALL” Labour Members of Parliament in the
Period 1945 up to 1980, and even after, were Wholeheartedly and
Vigorously apposed to Local Councils Selling off Freehold Council House
Properties,?
Your views on this would be appreciated.?
5
You further state in your letter ,that I am right to pull as much
information together as possible in order for a “FULL” investigation to
be Completed,
Will you please explain to me , who is to undertake this “Full”
investigation , are “You” my Democratically Elected Member of
Parliament for Hartlepool
An explanation to clarify this statement would be appreciated to avoid
any future misunderstanding. if as you have previously stated you do
not believe there is anything Sinister or Conspiratorial or even
Incompetent about this in deciding what financial documents to retain
on the ground of space or “Legal” requirements, ?
(a)
As I have already stated., and not for the first time, I am unable to
get a Honest or Sensible answer from any Hartlepool Borough Council
paid Officials or Elected Councillors , All my Freedom of Information
Requests are answered in Authentic Local gibberish, I personally find
it highly Suspicious that this is the (3) third time in answer to my
inquiries “ALL” the Documents requested have been Destroyed, ?
Hartlepool Borough Council Officials all appear to have a Serious
Medical Condition, possibly Amnesia, a sudden loss of memory, when
their integrity is questioned,
(b)
You will also recall my previous F.O.I. requests to Hartlepool
Borough Council, for Copies of the Fraudulent Ownership Certificates
“A“ & “B” which were Refused, and would have “proved” the Retrospective
Planning application H/2009/0568 built without Planning Permission
and Physically attached to Private Property was “Not” in the
Applicants “Ownership” and was therefore legally flawed , invalid, in
clear breach of the Statutory Requirements of the Town & Country
Planning Act 1990, under section 65(5) read in conjunction with article
7 of the GDPO,
The local planning authority “MUST NOT” entertain an application for
planning permission unless the relevant Certificates concerning the
“Ownership” of the application have been completed. That the Law, but
conveniently ignored by Hartlepool Planning Officials.
(c )
Regarding building without Planning permission, I have No Doubt you
will remember the following statement made by
David Cameron (Prime Minister, Witney, Conservative,)
Questions September 7th 2011.
WHAT I WOULD SAY IS THAT IT IS A BASIC ISSUE OF FAIRNESS, EVERONE IN
THIS COUNTRY HAS TO OBEY THE LAW ABOUT PLANNING PERMISSION. WHERE THIS HAS BEEN DONE WITHOUT PERMISSION IT IS AN ILLEGAL DEVELOPMENT
Obvious he is wrong, that law does “NOT” apply to Hartlepool.?
(d)
No one can forget ,Malcolm Dawson O.B.E. Head of Land Registry, who
claimed in his letter to you (copy to myself) recently, to have
discovered in his Investigation of my allegations of Criminal
Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice at Land Registry, Durham,
that the “Original” Survey documents had been unfortunately destroyed
? Funny that , it only happens to me,?
6
Your previous recommendation that I report “ALL” my Allegations of
Criminal Wrongdoing, and Land and Property Fraud by Abuse of Office,
and Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice' to Cleveland Police
Authority is under way. I intend to Keep you fully informed of any
developments of my Criminal Allegation. Naturally As Usual, I will
post this Letter on the World Wide Internet on my personal Blog.
http://alanflounders.blogspot.com/
6c4922d4b45ecea6b61d/0ea6ebf6a21a97136a5b
(Signed with an electronic signature in accordance with subsection 7(3)
of the Electronic Communications Act 2000.)
I have been asked by the Internet team members of “Write to Them” if I have received any reply to my recent Letter sent to my Member of Parliament for Hartlepool, Iain Wright M.P. unfortunately I have had to say “NO” only an acknowledgement , saying my comments have been noted ?
“NO” answers to “ANY” of my questions, I am “NOT” saying nor am I implying that my M.P. Iain Wright, Member of Parliament for Hartlepool, is no longer Seriously interested in my Allegations of Criminal Fraudulent Misconduct in Public Office. by Personnel in the Legal and Planning Departments of Hartlepool Borough Council, and Officials of Land Registry, Durham, but to ensure, that there is a record of my Criminal Allegations, Unlike some Officials of Hartlepool Borough Council and Land Registry, Durham, who, both have a very Irritating habit of Misplacing or Destroying Legal Documents , I wish to have “ALL” of my Allegations of Criminal Documents , Recorded for Future Reference on this Wide World Internet Site, it is for that the reason that I now Publish this Letter I recently sent to Iain Wright M.P. Member of Parliament for Hartlepool, who can not say, in the future, he was totally unaware of “ANY” of my Serious Allegations of Fraudulent and Criminal Misconduct in Public Office reported to him
The old saying goes: All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Lord Justice Mummery recently said on the Internet
I believe that if a public authority was deceived into granting planning permission by a “Dishonest” planning application, and that public authority behaved in a similar deceitful way, its planning decisions would rightly be set aside by the court as an unlawful abuse of power
From: WriteToThem
Date: 02/21/12 10:58:01
To: Alan Harvey Flounders
Subject: Did your MP reply to your letter?  
Two weeks ago we sent your letter to Iain Wright MP, your MP. (For
reference, there's a copy of your letter at the bottom of this email)
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on the link below:
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Tuesday 7 February 2012
Dear Iain Wright, M.P.
Monday, 6 February 2012
Dear Iain Wright, M.P. Member of Parliament for Hartlepool.
Thank You for your reply, received to-day, to my letter Regarding the
Sale of Council House Land and Property from 1970 up to 1980, before
the “ Right to Buy your Council House “was Introduced by Margaret
Thatcher’s Conservative Government, regarding my Freedom of
Information requests to Hartlepool Borough Council, on the number and
legitimacy of the Sale of Freehold Council House Properties, and what
was Required of a Sitting Council House Rent Paying Tenant to be
allowed to Buy their Council House Property, in the Periods 1970 till
1980, and “NOT” as you stated in your letter of reply, the years
1970-1973,
1.
I was always led to believe, that prior to the Legal Right to Buy your
Council House introduced by the then Prime Minister, Margaret
Thatcher, it was very difficult if not impossible for a Rent paying
Tenant of any Council House Property to be given the legal right to
purchase their Freehold Council Owned Land and Property prior to 1980.
(a)
I wanted to know what qualified a Council House Tenant to be able to
Purchase their Freehold Rented Property, between the years 1970 to
1980 ,at a time of acute shortages of available Council House
Properties to Rent.?
A fair and simple question ? Why refuse to answer , If not to deceive?
(b)
Was this legal entitlement to Purchase their Homes available prior to
1980, to “ALL” Council House Tenants, in Hartlepool, and if “NOT” why
“NOT”
Another fair and simple question.? Why refuse to answer , If not to
deceive,
(c )
Question , as was my request for the numbers of Sales if “ANY” in the
years prior to 1980.when there was, and still is, a long waiting list
of desperate people living in unsuitable conditions and even slum
area’s, who where patiently awaiting their entitlement and opportunity
to rent a Council House Property,?
2.
In trying to seek further information, I drew your attention to the
following found on the Internet, questions and answers in the House of
Commons on the purchase of Council House Properties from the Housing
and Local Government Minister Mr Greenwood, ?
Mr. Spriggs
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government to what extent local
housing authorities can sell their houses without his sanction and
whether he will take steps to require any such authority to refund all
the housing subsidies received by them, following the sale of any such
property. ?
(b)
Mr. Greenwood
Local authorities require “my” consent under Section 104 of the Housing
Act, 1957 to the sale of any house on land required or appropriated for
the purposes of Part V of the Act and on which Exchequer subsidy has
been paid. This covers the vast majority of council houses and it is
under this power that I have continued the general consent to the sale
of houses, subject to the conditions set out in Circular No.24/ 67.
A person shall “NOT” be entitled under this Part of this Act to acquire
the freehold of property or an extended lease of the property where the
freehold is vested in a housing society as defined by section 1(7) of
the Housing Act 1964 and where the cost of acquisition or construction
of the property has been financed by a housing society in whole or in
part by means of loans from the housing corporation or from a” “local
Authority,” ?
(c )
I have further searched the Internet, in reference to the Housing Act
1957, Part V Housing Act 1957 (now repealed) which the Hartlepool
F.O.I. Officer claimed, Granted Hartlepool Council the option to sell
Council Houses, without success, (apart from the above,) in addition I
have been unable to find Reference to “ANY” Statutory Requirement to
Retain any Financial Documentary Details of the Sale of Freehold
Council House Property, for a Minimum Period of (6) six years, and
after a such a period all files are and have been destroyed ? Where
does it say this ?
(d)
Under the circumstances I can’t agree with your good self when you
say in your letter to me, “you do not believe there is anything
Sinister or Conspiratorial or even Incompetent about this” , in
deciding what financial documents to retain on the ground of space or
“Legal” requirements, ?
3.
I also thought that you would have been interested to know “IF” the
Right To Buy before 1980, was available to “ALL” Hartlepool Council
House Tenants, and if “ NOT” why “NOT” a serious question as I always
had been led to believe that “ALL” Labour Members of Parliament in the
Period 1945 up to 1980, and even after, were Wholeheartedly and
Vigorously apposed to Local Councils Selling off Freehold Council House
Properties,?
Your views on this would be appreciated.?
5
You further state in your letter ,that I am right to pull as much
information together as possible in order for a “FULL” investigation to
be Completed,
Will you please explain to me , who is to undertake this “Full”
investigation , are “You” my Democratically Elected Member of
Parliament for Hartlepool
An explanation to clarify this statement would be appreciated to avoid
any future misunderstanding. if as you have previously stated you do
not believe there is anything Sinister or Conspiratorial or even
Incompetent about this in deciding what financial documents to retain
on the ground of space or “Legal” requirements, ?
(a)
As I have already stated., and not for the first time, I am unable to
get a Honest or Sensible answer from any Hartlepool Borough Council
paid Officials or Elected Councillors , All my Freedom of Information
Requests are answered in Authentic Local gibberish, I personally find
it highly Suspicious that this is the (3) third time in answer to my
inquiries “ALL” the Documents requested have been Destroyed, ?
Hartlepool Borough Council Officials all appear to have a Serious
Medical Condition, possibly Amnesia, a sudden loss of memory, when
their integrity is questioned,
(b)
You will also recall my previous F.O.I. requests to Hartlepool
Borough Council, for Copies of the Fraudulent Ownership Certificates
“A“ & “B” which were Refused, and would have “proved” the Retrospective
Planning application H/2009/0568 built without Planning Permission
and Physically attached to Private Property was “Not” in the
Applicants “Ownership” and was therefore legally flawed , invalid, in
clear breach of the Statutory Requirements of the Town & Country
Planning Act 1990, under section 65(5) read in conjunction with article
7 of the GDPO,
The local planning authority “MUST NOT” entertain an application for
planning permission unless the relevant Certificates concerning the
“Ownership” of the application have been completed. That the Law, but
conveniently ignored by Hartlepool Planning Officials.
(c )
Regarding building without Planning permission, I have No Doubt you
will remember the following statement made by
David Cameron (Prime Minister, Witney, Conservative,)
Questions September 7th 2011.
WHAT I WOULD SAY IS THAT IT IS A BASIC ISSUE OF FAIRNESS, EVERONE IN
THIS COUNTRY HAS TO OBEY THE LAW ABOUT PLANNING PERMISSION. WHERE THIS HAS BEEN DONE WITHOUT PERMISSION IT IS AN ILLEGAL DEVELOPMENT
Obvious he is wrong, that law does “NOT” apply to Hartlepool.?
(d)
No one can forget ,Malcolm Dawson O.B.E. Head of Land Registry, who
claimed in his letter to you (copy to myself) recently, to have
discovered in his Investigation of my allegations of Criminal
Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice at Land Registry, Durham,
that the “Original” Survey documents had been unfortunately destroyed
? Funny that , it only happens to me,?
6
Your previous recommendation that I report “ALL” my Allegations of
Criminal Wrongdoing, and Land and Property Fraud by Abuse of Office,
and Conspiracy to Pervert the Course of Justice' to Cleveland Police
Authority is under way. I intend to Keep you fully informed of any
developments of my Criminal Allegation. Naturally As Usual, I will
post this Letter on the World Wide Internet on my personal Blog.
http://alanflounders.blogspot.com/
6c4922d4b45ecea6b61d/0ea6ebf6a21a97136a5b
(Signed with an electronic signature in accordance with subsection 7(3)
of the Electronic Communications Act 2000.)
Friday, 10 February 2012
Sunday, 22 January 2012
Freedom of Information Responses on Council House Sales, 1970 to 1980
Freedom of Information responses which may be of interest.
On Council Houses Sales
Tuesday, 17 January 2012,
I have again received a reply from the member of Parliament for Hartlepool, Iain Wright M.P. regarding my latest Freedom of Information request to Hartlepool Borough Council, regarding my concerns of legality of the sale of Council Owned Houses and Properties, prior to the right to the “buy” legislation introduced in 1980. By Margaret Thatcher.
Dear Iain Wright, M.P.
I wrote and thanked him for his reply on the 13th January 2012 to my letter of the 9th January 2012, which I received to-day, in which he agreed that any allegations of Criminal activity should be rightly reported and investigated by the Police.
I know that Iain Wright, M.P. is fully aware and has a record of my Allegations of Criminality in Public Office, by Officials of Hartlepool Borough Council and Land Registry, Durham, and is now also aware of my latest request seeking information regarding the sale of Council Houses and Freehold Properties in the years 1970, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, up to the Introduction In 1980” of the “Right to Buy “ Legislation, when, Margaret Thatcher’s government gave Council tenants the right to buy their homes, this policy transformed the lives of some of the least affluent in society, helping two million Britons to become homeowners “for the first time.” said David Davis, the senior Tory MP and Frank Field, a former Labour Minister. In an article published on the Internet and placed in the Public domain,
Right To Buy: Allow One Million Additional Social Housing Tenants To Buy Their Homes, Senior Backbench MPs Say
Source: eGov monitor
Published Friday, 6 January, 2012 - 10:14
In the light of the above claim, that the “Right to Buy” introduced in 1980 by Margaret Thatcher’s Government , gave Council House tenants the chance to buy their Council Houses, for the FIRST TIME you will no doubt be very interested in the answers I received to this latest Freedom of Information Request to Hartlepool Borough Council , regarding the Sale of any Council House Properties, in the years 1970. 1971, 1972, 1973 up to 1980 , which is available on the What Do They Know Internet Site, and my Blog. Below,
http://alanflounders.blogspot.com/
The reply I received, once again failed completely to answer clearly any of my critical, but reasonable requests for the total number of Council House sales for the years requested, and by what legal authority allowed any such sales, this reply was obviously another Whitewash, another Smoke and Mirror’s exercise, by Hartlepool Borough Council, their “Claim” that all documentary Information on Council House sales in the period 1970 to 1980 had been destroyed ? Is frankly Unbelievable , and highly suspicious, when compared with their previously stated answers on Planning records, in which they stated that all their Planning records have been retained since 1947, ? So why destroy all financial documents of Council Property sales ?
For the years 1970 up to 1980, ? Oh dear, never mind. This is “Hartlepool”
I have naturally requested a “Review” but doubt if I will receive a honest reply, my last requests for a review has still not been addressed, see below,
WHATDOTHEYKNOW website. 10th June 2010
Alyson Carman said,
Your original request was received on the 3rd February 2010 and responded
to on the 23 February 2010 and therefore met the 20 working day deadline
for a response.
I note at (a) that you requested a copy of the Council's validation
checklist but this does not appear to have been provided, although there
is confirmation that the Council's validation checklist was applied. I
asked the Planning Department for a copy and they have provided a copy of
the validation report relating to the application in question. I am sorry
this was not provided in response to your original request.
This Validation Check list was never ever received .? Why not, ?
I claim that to do so would have exposed the Validation Certificates
Of Property Ownership as bogus, fraudulent, as would an inspection of the Official Copy of the entries in the Register of Title on 9th October 2008, at 10.55.27. And issued by Land Registry on 10th October 2008,
Proof of such allegations can also be verified by a simple ocular inspection
of the WHATDOTHEYKNOW website.
I have also asked my Democratically Elected Member of Parliament , if he agrees with me , that Records of these Important and Serious Financial Sales and Purchases, should never have been destroyed, and under the circumstances should not these Irregular Financial Transaction be made the subject of the appointment of a special auditor to investigate all these Financial Transactions,” and should not a request for a special auditor be submitted to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, ?
My other questions still remain valid, but remain unanswered, and must be of great concern to all right thinking people, what qualified a rent paying Hartlepool Council House tenant the right to be able to purchase their Council owned freehold Land and Property, which they occupied, in the years prior to 1980, when there was, and still is, a long waiting list of desperate people living in unsuitable conditions and even slum area’s, who where patiently awaiting their entitlement and opportunity to rent a Council House Property,? And was this entitlement to a Right to Purchase available to all Council House Tenants, in Hartlepool, and if “NOT” why “NOT”
It was a valid question , why should some favoured tenants be allowed to Purchase their council owned Property and other’s denied, few would argue against the fact that this seems an inequitable situation, where there is one rule for some council house tenants and another for the remainder , a refusal to answer must be viewed with grave suspicion ?
Yours Sincerely,
Alan Harvey Flounders
On Council Houses Sales
Tuesday, 17 January 2012,
I have again received a reply from the member of Parliament for Hartlepool, Iain Wright M.P. regarding my latest Freedom of Information request to Hartlepool Borough Council, regarding my concerns of legality of the sale of Council Owned Houses and Properties, prior to the right to the “buy” legislation introduced in 1980. By Margaret Thatcher.
Dear Iain Wright, M.P.
I wrote and thanked him for his reply on the 13th January 2012 to my letter of the 9th January 2012, which I received to-day, in which he agreed that any allegations of Criminal activity should be rightly reported and investigated by the Police.
I know that Iain Wright, M.P. is fully aware and has a record of my Allegations of Criminality in Public Office, by Officials of Hartlepool Borough Council and Land Registry, Durham, and is now also aware of my latest request seeking information regarding the sale of Council Houses and Freehold Properties in the years 1970, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, up to the Introduction In 1980” of the “Right to Buy “ Legislation, when, Margaret Thatcher’s government gave Council tenants the right to buy their homes, this policy transformed the lives of some of the least affluent in society, helping two million Britons to become homeowners “for the first time.” said David Davis, the senior Tory MP and Frank Field, a former Labour Minister. In an article published on the Internet and placed in the Public domain,
Right To Buy: Allow One Million Additional Social Housing Tenants To Buy Their Homes, Senior Backbench MPs Say
Source: eGov monitor
Published Friday, 6 January, 2012 - 10:14
In the light of the above claim, that the “Right to Buy” introduced in 1980 by Margaret Thatcher’s Government , gave Council House tenants the chance to buy their Council Houses, for the FIRST TIME you will no doubt be very interested in the answers I received to this latest Freedom of Information Request to Hartlepool Borough Council , regarding the Sale of any Council House Properties, in the years 1970. 1971, 1972, 1973 up to 1980 , which is available on the What Do They Know Internet Site, and my Blog. Below,
http://alanflounders.blogspot.com/
The reply I received, once again failed completely to answer clearly any of my critical, but reasonable requests for the total number of Council House sales for the years requested, and by what legal authority allowed any such sales, this reply was obviously another Whitewash, another Smoke and Mirror’s exercise, by Hartlepool Borough Council, their “Claim” that all documentary Information on Council House sales in the period 1970 to 1980 had been destroyed ? Is frankly Unbelievable , and highly suspicious, when compared with their previously stated answers on Planning records, in which they stated that all their Planning records have been retained since 1947, ? So why destroy all financial documents of Council Property sales ?
For the years 1970 up to 1980, ? Oh dear, never mind. This is “Hartlepool”
I have naturally requested a “Review” but doubt if I will receive a honest reply, my last requests for a review has still not been addressed, see below,
WHATDOTHEYKNOW website. 10th June 2010
Alyson Carman said,
Your original request was received on the 3rd February 2010 and responded
to on the 23 February 2010 and therefore met the 20 working day deadline
for a response.
I note at (a) that you requested a copy of the Council's validation
checklist but this does not appear to have been provided, although there
is confirmation that the Council's validation checklist was applied. I
asked the Planning Department for a copy and they have provided a copy of
the validation report relating to the application in question. I am sorry
this was not provided in response to your original request.
This Validation Check list was never ever received .? Why not, ?
I claim that to do so would have exposed the Validation Certificates
Of Property Ownership as bogus, fraudulent, as would an inspection of the Official Copy of the entries in the Register of Title on 9th October 2008, at 10.55.27. And issued by Land Registry on 10th October 2008,
Proof of such allegations can also be verified by a simple ocular inspection
of the WHATDOTHEYKNOW website.
I have also asked my Democratically Elected Member of Parliament , if he agrees with me , that Records of these Important and Serious Financial Sales and Purchases, should never have been destroyed, and under the circumstances should not these Irregular Financial Transaction be made the subject of the appointment of a special auditor to investigate all these Financial Transactions,” and should not a request for a special auditor be submitted to the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, ?
My other questions still remain valid, but remain unanswered, and must be of great concern to all right thinking people, what qualified a rent paying Hartlepool Council House tenant the right to be able to purchase their Council owned freehold Land and Property, which they occupied, in the years prior to 1980, when there was, and still is, a long waiting list of desperate people living in unsuitable conditions and even slum area’s, who where patiently awaiting their entitlement and opportunity to rent a Council House Property,? And was this entitlement to a Right to Purchase available to all Council House Tenants, in Hartlepool, and if “NOT” why “NOT”
It was a valid question , why should some favoured tenants be allowed to Purchase their council owned Property and other’s denied, few would argue against the fact that this seems an inequitable situation, where there is one rule for some council house tenants and another for the remainder , a refusal to answer must be viewed with grave suspicion ?
Yours Sincerely,
Alan Harvey Flounders
Monday, 9 January 2012
alan harvey flounders aka "Coffin Dodger "
alan harvey flounders aka "Coffin Dodger "
9 January 2012 21:22
Mr. Iain Wright. M.P. Member of Parliament for Hartlepool
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your latest reply, dated 3rd January 2012,, I am only too pleased to correct any misunderstanding you may have regarding my claim that you did not appear to wish to support my allegations of wrongdoing, I therefore thank you for your obvious support and agree with my decision to report to the Cleveland Police my serious allegations of wrongdoing by Officers of both Hartlepool Borough Council and Land Registry, Durham.
I sincerely appreciate your attempt to involve Malcolm Dawson O.B.E. to investigate my allegations of Land Registry, , while I did have hopes at first, but his statements to have investigated my allegations and claim that the original registry and survey documents had been destroyed, is not acceptable , It is completely unbelievable, and clearly implies that any one purchasing Property from Hartlepool Borough Council is on very sticky ground ? But
as the whole matter will soon be investigated by the proper authorities, I will make no further comments at the moment.
I therefore wish to keep you informed and to put into the Public Domain,
http://alanflounders.blogspot.com/
my latest reply to the F.O I request I made to Hartlepool Borough Council, on the Sale of Council House Properties.
Dear F.O.I. Officer.
(1)
Thank you for your reply to my latest request, Sale of Council Houses.
unfortunately, and not for the first time I find when dealing with Hartlepool Borough Council, that you have completely failed to answer any of my very simple requests,
In a previous F.O.I. request dated 6th August 2011, on your Statutory Duty to Retain Documentary Planning Records as required by law, you did confirm
that Hartlepool Borough Council had retained a copy of all planning records electronically or paper copies, from 1947 onwards, I repeat 1947 Onwards.
(2)
In view of the above statement that Hartlepool Borough Council have retained all planning records from 1947 onwards, I find it incomprehensible that you have failed to retain the Information on the sale of Council House Properties, for the years 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980, which I requested, and consequently you are unable to confirm the number of tenants, who purchased any council house property for those years, and therefore it can be assumed that you and they also are unable to validate and confirm who purchased any Council House Property for those years, further it must be assumed that Hartlepool Council are unable to say with any credibility by what financial arrangements where these Council Houses Sold, and Bought, where they sanctioned by the Town Council by way of a Mortgage, or Purchased by Cash, I find it very difficult as Council Tax payer to understand this cavalier attitude in recording a very important financial transaction, to have no records of how many and for how much Council Property was Sold, is Downright Criminal. When you admitted you retained Planning Records from 1947 ?
(3)
I have further searched the Internet, in reference to the Housing Act 1957, you quoted in your reply, a) Part V Housing Act 1957 (now repealed) granted Council option to sell. without success, in addition I am unable
to find any reference to any Statutory Requirement to destroy any
Financial Documentary Details of the Sale of Council House Property.
as you claim in your reply below? I Still have my Mortgage Redemption Payment Statement ,signed by the Chief Financial Officer of Hartlepool Borough Council J. D. Walton I.PF.A.?
b) We do not hold this information, statute requires we hold information
relating to Council House sales for a minimum period of 6 years after
which all files are and have been destroyed ? Where does it say this ?
I did find the following
Council Houses (Sale)
HC Deb 13 June 1967 vol 748 cc49-50W49W
§53. Mr. Spriggs
asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government to what extent local housing authorities can sell 50Wtheir houses without his sanction and whether he will take steps to require any such authority to refund all the housing subsidies received by them, following the sale of any such property.
§Mr. Greenwood
Local authorities require my consent under Section 104 of the Housing Act, 1957 to the sale of any house on land required or appropriated for the purposes of Part V of the Act and on which Exchequer subsidy has been paid. This covers the vast majority of council houses and it is under this power that I have continued the general consent to the sale of houses, subject to the conditions set out in Circular No.24/ 67.
A person shall not be entitled under this Part of this Act to acquire the freehold of property or an extended lease of the property where the freehold is vested in a housing society as defined by section 1(7) of the Housing Act 1964 and where the cost of acquisition or construction of the property has been financed by a housing society in whole or in part by means of loans from the housing corporation or from a local authority
An explanation would be appreciated, but on past experience , could I request a Internal Review.? And some sensible and honest answers. ? I am a Law abiding Tax Paying Citizen. And demand a Courteous Answer .
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