Remember the Words of the late Lord Chief Justice-Lord Denning-who said- No Court in this Land-will allow a person to keep an advantage- he has obtained by fraud- No judgement of a Court-No Order of a Minister-, can be allowed to stand- if it has been obtained by fraud- FRAUD- unravels everything-
Sunday, 28 April 2013
DO YOU KNOW YOUR WARD COUNCILLOR -YES -ANONYMOUS IS BACK AGAIN ?
DO YOU KNOW YOUR WARD COUNCILLOR -YES -ANONYMOUS IS BACK AGAIN ?
Sunday, 28 April 2013
The objectives when starting this blog was to expose the many devious methods used by Hartlepool Local Government officers & some Elected Councillors who’s main purpose in life appears to Ignore most Valid Complaints - so they can hide significant amounts of Council Maladministration for their friends and colleagues & to divert attention away from their own incompetence and wrongdoings in Public Office,
You can imagine how surprised & disgusted I was after submitting my very first written complaint in August 2008, objecting to Planning Application- to discover that the Hartlepool Complaints Procedure was Completely Useless-
The more I probed - the more questions I asked - the more astonishing evidence of misconduct emerged concerning both the Legal & Planning Departments- in Hartlepool Borough Council -Favouritism was Rife ?
Would you believe - I discovered that Weekly Paying Council House Tenants had been allowed to run a Profit making Business - prohibited by the Tenancy Agreement ? But allowed if in the Know- nobody has mentioned Brown Envelopes ? Or Other questionable Hanky-Panky activities ?
I also discovered that some specially selected- Council House Tenants - were allowed to Purchase their Freehold Land & Property at a Time of a Critical Shortage of Social Housing- prior to the Right to Buy Law introduced in 1980
A Privilege denied to others ? ? Guess who ? The same individuals “Granted” Retrospective Planning Approval for a Kitchen Extension built on & attached to Freehold Property “NOT” in their Registered Title of “Ownership”
Democracy - Hartlepool Style - Labour Controlled - Makes you think?
Yesterday- I received a Reply to a Letter I submitted to Mr Eric Pickles M.P. the Minister for the Department for Communities & Local Government - I intend to publish very shortly his comments & my written reply on Illegal Planning - & The Statutory Requirements required under the Town & Country Planning Act 1990 - under section 65 (6) it is an Offence to issue a false Ownership Certificate - ? I can see the Light at the end of the Tunnel?
In the mean time I think I should Publish for all to read my comments addressed to Anonymous - in Particular- but also to the Pond Life of Harrtlepool- & we most certainly have more than we deserve- who appear to get some sort of Kick in making Silent & Sometime Obscene phone calls to my Home? I must be hitting a Nerve with some guilty people ? Ask yourselves this- if you saved your money & bought a Freehold Ex-Council House- and someone built something without permission- in your back garden & the said it was theirs- would you not try and recover it ? Honest answers Please ?
Note to Anonymous-
POSTED SUNDAY NIGHT 14th April 2013
I know I’m classed as an Old Fool or if you like an old Fart, by some armchair Politicians for Exposing Political Wrongdoing, in Hartlepool, BUT I do wish that naïve & stupid people like yourself- would read the article before making anonymous foul mouthed negative comments - which I have Deleted, yet again,
While I will Continue to Accept & Publish - Anonymous Comments - I will “NO-LONGER ” Publish , “ANY” Negative or Positive Comments that Contain Filthy -Foul-Mouth & Abusive Language - such as Yours- Anonymous. ?
I strongly Suspect , you are a Supporter of the Three DE-BRUS Ward Labour Councillors, COOK- GRIFFIN & TEMPEST- a Supporter who lacks any moral Courage to make a Comment - using your Real name ?
If you are a Supporter - which I suspect- of these DE-BRUS Ward Labour Councillors, might I suggest you read the Report Circulating on the Internet- in the Hartlepool Post -that one female Labour Councillor-? representing the DE-BRUS Ward - at the Last Hartlepool Borough Councils meeting held on Thursday 11th April 2013, not once, but twice appeared to physically nod off during key votes. This is not the Conduct one should expect of a Councillor.
She is obviously Well Past her sell-by date ! or could it Possibly be - Exhaustion -Medication- it can’t be Drink? - I leave others to decide?
I personally feel that this is yet another incident which adds more weight , if any more were needed to validate my published allegations - That None of there(3) DE-BRUS Ward Labour Councillors are Morally Competent Or are fit & Proper people to Represent their Constituents.- Hypocrites ?
It’s quite wrong that our Public Servants & Councillors behave in such a Disgraceful manner, but I am sure that they will have some clever words to explain why it is that they aren’t Investigating my Serious but Truthful Illegal Planning Allegations , & to prove I am not alone - have a read of this :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2315521/Democracy-Dont-make-laugh-This-really-goes-Town-Hall.html
Thursday, 11 April 2013
WHO IS MY ELECTED DE-BRUS -WARD COUNCILLOR ON HARTLEPOOL COUNCIL
WHO IS MY ELECTED DE-BRUS WARD COUNCILLOR.
Here for Publication, Records -Information, Files & to Dispel any future Claims or Misunderstandings that Serious Allegations of Misconduct & Planning Complaints were NEVER Received by the TOWN MAYOR- STUART DRUMMOND, & to Clarify my Serious Comments, is a more Detailed & Updated version of my Letter previously sent by me , to my Three (3) DE-BRUS Ward Labour Councillors, ROB COOK, SHEILA GRIFFIN, SANDRA TEMPEST, Regarding my allegations of Misconduct of Hartlepool Council Planning Officials? Copies were also sent to the Labour Member of Parliament for Hartlepool Iain Wright M.P. & the Three Members of the European Parliament- Fiona Hall, ( Lib.Dem) Stephen Hughes (Lab) Martin Callahan ( Cons.) now sent to the Mayor of Hartlepool Stuart Drummond on Wednesday 10th April 2013
Dear Sir,
HONESTY -TRUTHFULNES - INTEGRATY - ARE NOT REQUIRED
IF SEEKING COUNCIL ELECTION IN HARTLEPOOL
MY research into Council Corruption on the Internet has highlighted Two (2) More Very Highly Recommended & Excellent Corruption Buster Sites, Both well worth a Visit?
1. Stockport Homes - Sheila Oliver's Campaigning Website2. http://www.real-whitby.co.UK/
I thought I would continue as Previously Promised & Try to explain & and add a little background regarding the SOLICITORS LETTER I RECEIVED FROM PETER DEVIL ? Requested, It should be remembered by my (3) Three DE-BRUS Labour Party Ward Councillors, ROB COOK, SHEILA GRIFFIN & SANDRA TEMPEST ?Any Sensible Person Realises as I do, that a Councillors work can at times be a Thankless Task, but the bottom line is NO-ONE Held a GUN to Their Heads and Physically Threatened , ROB COOK, SHEILA GRIFFIN & SANDRA TEMPEST with DEATH Unless they Agreed to Stand for Hartlepool Council,?
That’s is the truth of the matter.? It is ALSO believed that an army of Labour supporters & would be Politicians-banged on every single door of their constituents in the West-View De-Brus Ward, including ROB COOK & SHEILA GRIFFIN- Voluntarily claiming to be the Best- the Most Upright Decent & Honest Person for the job! or Word to that Affect ?
Indeed it should be noted that when ROB COOK , knocked on my Door, He appeared a normal person, totally committed with a God given desire to help his fellow Men & Women, ? I invited him into my Home, he delivered a lengthy and informed talk on Why I should Vote Labour-? & In Particular for himself- In the Up- Coming DE-BRUS ward Council Elections-
I explained my Personal Disillusions with the Local Labour Party- in Particular - my inability to get Hartlepool Council to investigate my Complaints & Protests, regarding the “GRANTING” by the Case Planning Officer Richard Trow, of the Structural Unsafe Controversial Retrospective Planning Application H/2009/0568? - after a few further questions & answers, I invited ROB COOK to Inspect & See for himself the Unsafe Cowboy Built Carbuncle of a Kitchen Extension, originally erected & attached to the Rear Non Load bearing Rear Wall of my Freehold Detached Wash-House Property Without both Council Planning Permission, or the Land Owners Consent?
ROB COOK’S reactions, after his inspection of the unsafe Carbuncle of a Cowboy built kitchen extension, was one of Total Disbelief - how did THIS Disgraceful Extension get RETROSPECTIVE PLANNING PERMISSION? “It should be DEMOLISED , he said” ?
I firmly believed at that time, that if Elected ROB COOK, would try & address my GENUINE SAFETY & FREEHOLD PROPERTY RIGHTS ? I would receive an explanation at least, as to what legal justification had allowed a Council Planning Officer Richard Trow, acting without any Involvement of the Elected Council Planning Committee - to Completely Disregard my Lawful Peaceful Protests , that the Retrospective Planning Application H/2009/0568 was Legally Flawed, in that it had been erected by Cowboy Builders & was overhanging & attached to the Non Load Bearing Rear Wall of the Outside Detached Wash-House Building, causing structural damage to a neighbours Private Property & Covering the Gas Ventilation Ducts, Preventing the Escape to the Outside Atmosphere of any Build up of TOXIC & EXPLOSIVE GASSES from the Internal Gas Heated Hot Water Boiler Facilities, Preventing the Legal Owner the safe use of the Wash-House Facilities? & should NEVER have been GRANTED Retrospective Planning Permission ?
It clearly did not comply with the Statutory Building & Safety Regulations Events have Since proved, that I was completely Naïve & Foolish in Trusting the words of ROB COOK the Labour Politician who was seeking election to the local Council as the Labour Representative of the DE-BRUS Ward,Hindsight is a wonderful thing, it is quite clear to me now that Getting elected to the Town Council, was obviously, his Main ambition, ? Election to Hartlepool Council at any Cost- Forget- Honesty,- Integrity, or any previously held thoughts or obligations to his DE-BRUS Ward Constituents - they can be Ignored?
My Complaints of Misconduct by Officials in Both the Legal And Planning Departments, my Complaints of the “GRANTING” of a Retrospective Planning application, for a Cowboy Built Building , which clearly did not comply to any Statutory Building or Safety Regulations - which he saw with his own eyes? Have been effectively Brushed under the Carpet- Kicked into The Long Grass ?
Completely Ignored, in fact since ROB COOK’s was Elected as Labour Councillor for the DE-Brus Ward, he has joined forces with the other Two(2) elected Labour Councillors, SHEILA GRIFFIN, & SANDRA TEMPEST , and Requested the Town Solicitor PETER DEVLIN , to send me a Letter, (available on here,) which I understand to be, a Letter of “Disapproval” of my written Criticism of their total lack of interest in My Concerns, it is my Understanding that any Further Correspondence from me to my Elected DE-BRUS Ward Councillors “MUST” be Viewed and Vetted by the Legal Department (I.e.) PETER DEVLIN Himself first?
I believe this is a Blatant attempt to deflect attention away from their failure to investigate my Planning complaints,
I didn’t vote for the Town Solicitor PETER DEVLIN to be my DE-BRUS Ward Councillor, but whether I like it or Not - it would appear I’ve Got him- on reflection- it would be impossible for him to be any worse or Incompetent than my present (3) Labour Ward Councillors ?
This very unsavoury and serious situation that I believe now exists in the Hartlepool Borough Council, is Not a Laughing matter, for ordinary Hartlepool people to Dare to Criticise their Elected ward Councillors who are all Members of the Hartlepool Labour Party- is often seen like a Personal Criticism of the Queen, and to do so , you would, in all probability, be Quickly labelled as a Trouble-Maker, a Crack - Pot- who is in urgent Need of some type of mental Treatment ? Or threatened with legal proceedings ?
(a Solicitors Letter from Peter Devlin, is the flavour of the month in Hartlepool-)
It Suit’s the local Hartlepool Labour Political rulers that way- it limits Complaints- and keeps some sort of lid on resentments- allegations of Corruption, Planning irregularities, arrogance and incompetence are quickly ignored, kicked into the long grass, or Claimed they where NEVER received, ?
As my did my last letter from the Mayor of Hartlepool STUART DRUMMOND Highlight?
To quote Mandy Rice-Davies – “He would say that wouldn’t he?”
A few Hartlepool People , having lately lost their Hospital” are now beginning at last, to ask questions which they are entitled to do, where is our money going,? how Competent are the people “Running the Show” Who is in command of the Ship ?
And will they continue to be Deceived -Lied too- Stone-walled- insulted,- for having the Courage to ask a question-. ? I believe the Answer is “YES”
A healthy-honest group of Elected Councillors should "NOT" be frightened or apprehensive of scrutiny- yet many in Hartlepool are very reluctant, indeed some appear to be terrified to investigate reported allegation of misconduct WHY ?
The answer my friends, is very simple, and anyone with an iota of common sense and ten minutes worth of research can see that the problem is -Self Interest-What’s in it for ME attitude, that is the most important thought in the minds of the majority of our Labour Councillors
They all appear much better off after Election- than they were before? Does anyone remember or know of “ONE” ex- Labour Councillor having to apply for Financial Assistance after leaving Office?
Will I now get another Solicitors Letter?
It was my Understanding , (this information I have found in the Public Domain,) that Town Solicitors only have the right to make representation on behalf of the Council as a Whole ….and I thought they have “NO” right to make representation on behalf of individual labour Councillors on ‘personal’ matters, if that is so, then I believe they overstep their contract of employment.?
But then who cares ! After all this is Hartlepool?
Time to report it to the police, I hear you all say ?
That is the advice of IAIN WRIGHT Member of Parliament for Hartlepool & lately the Advice of the Democratically Elected Mayor of Hartlepool , STUART DRUMMOND, to whom I have lately Complained ? Will I receive any better treatment there ? One can only wait and See, ?
I most certainly intend to Report my Concerns to the Police Shortly?After all is said & done, although , I am “NOT” anti -authority, one can’t help being a little apprehensive of Reporting any allegations of Criminal Misconduct of Council Officials to Cleveland Police after reading all the Media reports lately ?
The Evening Gazette Report published on March 22, 2013, stated that :-
NINE ARRESTED UNDER CLEVELAND POLICE CORRUPTION PROBE ARE TO BE REBAILED -THOSE ON BAIL INCLUDE THE FORCE’S FORMER CHIEF CONSTABLE SEAN PRICE- & THE FORMER CHAIRMAN OF CLEVELAND POLICE AUTHORITY COUNCILLOR DAVE McLUCKIE.
Both have denied any wrongdoing & on the 5th April 2013, the Northern Echo reported that the Sacked DEPUTY CHIEF CONSTABLE OF CLEVELAND POLICE DEREK BONNARD has appealed against the decision.What a Sad state of Affairs in Hartlepool?
It is to be Remembered & I will continue to Proclaim, I am NOT the Villain in this Property Planning Dispute, I am the innocent victim of a Deliberate Despicable Deceitful attempt by Richard Trow, an Official in the Hartlepool Council’s Planning Department knowing the kitchen extension was structurally Unsound & Unsafe & did not comply with the Statutory Building or Safety Regulations? and had been Illegally Erected on part of the Registered Freehold Land & Property CE74844 "Absolute" which Was “NOT” in the Registered Ownership of the Retrospective Applicant, H/2009/0568
Yet "GRANTED" the RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATION ? it Stinks ?
Victims of crime have the right to be heard- & NOT treated as Criminals
A little reminder- of the Law- that still stands to-day,
The Rt.Hon. Lord Denning , The Lord Chief Justice
His Appeal Court Ruling January 12,13,24,1956 was:-
"No Court in this land will allow a person to keep an advantage which he has obtained by FRAUD, No judgement of a Court, No order of a Minister, can be allowed to Stand if it has been obtained by FRAUD - FRAUD unravels everything.
Your sincerely
Alan Harvey Flounders
Sunday, 7 April 2013
HOW TO BE A HARTLEPOOL COUNCILLOR
ARE HONESTY -TRUTHFULNESS - INTEGRITY - REQUIRED IF SEEKING
ELECTION TO HARTLEPOOL COUNCIL ?
MY research into Council Corruption on the Internet has highlighted Two (2) More Very Highly Recommended & Excellent Corruption Buster Sites Both well worth a Visit?Stockport Homes - Sheila Oliver's Campaigning Website
http://www.real-whitby.co.uk/
I thought I would continue as Previously Promised & Try to explain & add a little background regarding the SOLICITORS LETTER I RECEIVED FROM PETER DEVIL ? Requested, It should be remembered by my (3) Three DE-BRUS Labour Party Ward Councillors, ROB COOK, SHEILA GRIFFIN & SANDRA TEMPEST ?
Any Sensible Person realises as I do, that a Councillors work can at times be a thankless task, but the bottom line is no-one held a gun to their heads and physically threatened , ROB COOK, SHEILA GRIFFIN & SANDRA TEMPEST with death unless they agreed to stand for Council,?
That’s is the truth of the matter.? It is ALSO believed that an army of Labour supporters & would be Politicians-banged on every single door of their constituents in the West-View De-Brus Ward, including ROB COOK & SHEILA GRIFFIN- Voluntarily claiming to be the
Best- the Most Upright Decent & Honest Person for the job!
Indeed it should be noted that when ROB COOK , knocked on my Door,
he appeared a normal person, totally committed with a God given desire to help his fellow Men & Women, ? I invited him into my Home, he delivered a lengthy and informed talk on Why I should Vote Labour-? & In Particular for himself- In the coming DE-BRUS ward Council Elections-
I explained my personal disillusions with the Local Labour Party- in particular my inability to get Hartlepool Council to investigate my
Complaints & Protests, regarding the “GRANTING” by the Case Planning Officer Richard Trow, of the Structural Unsafe Retrospective Planning Application H/2009/0568? - after a few further questions & answers, I invited ROB COOK to Inspect & see for himself the Cowboy Built Carbuncle of a Kitchen Extension, originally erected & attached to my Freehold Detached Wash-House Property Without both Council Planning Permission, or the Land Owners Consent?
ROB COOK’S reactions, after his inspection of the unsafe Carbuncle of a Cowboy built kitchen extension, was one of Total Disbelief - how did this Disgraceful Extension get Retrospective Planning Permission- “It should be Demolished, he said” I firmly believed at that time, that if Elected ROB COOK, would try & address my Genuine Safety Concerns, & I would receive an explanation at least, as to what legal justification had allowed a Council Planning Officer to completely Disregard my Lawful Peaceful Protests , that the Retrospective Planning Application was Legally Flawed, in that it was Constructed on Part of my Freehold Private Land & Property & had caused substantial damage including the dangerous Blocking of the Gas Exhaust ducts ?
It clearly did not comply with the Statutory Building Regulations,
Events have since proved, that I was completely Naïve & Foolish in
Trusting the words of ROB COOK the Labour Politician who was seeking election to the local Council as the Labour Representative of the DE-BRUS WARD hindsight is a wonderful thing, it is quite clear to me now that getting elected to the Town Council, was obviously, his main ambition, ? Election to Council at any Cost- Forget- Honesty,- Integrity, any previously held thoughts or obligations to his DE-BRUS Ward Constituents - they can be Ignored,
My Complaints of Misconduct by Officials in Both the Legal And Planning Departments, my Complaints of the “GRANTING” of a Retrospective Planning application, for a Cowboy Building , which clearly did not comply to any Statutory Building Regulations - which he saw with his own eyes? have been effectively Brushed under the Carpet- Kicked into The Long Grass ? Ignored in fact since ROB COOK’s Election as Labour Councillor for the DE-Brus Ward, he has joined forces with the other Two(2) elected Labour Councillors, SHEILA GRIFFIN, & SANDRA TEMPEST , and requested the Town Solicitor PETER DEVIL, to send me a Letter, available on here, which I understand to be, a Letter of “Disapproval” of my written criticism of their total lack of interest in my Concerns, it is my Understanding that any
further Correspondence from me to my Elected DE-BRUS Ward Councillors “MUST” be viewed and Vetted by the Legal Department (I.e.) Himself first?
I believe this is a Blatant attempt to deflect attention away from their failure to investigate my complaints
I didn’t vote for the Town Solicitor PETER DEVLIN to be my DE-BRUS Ward Councillor, but whether I like it or Not - it would appear I’ve Got him- on reflection- it would be impossible for him to be any worse or Incompetent than my present (3) Labour Ward Councillors ?
This very unsavoury and serious situation now exists in the Hartlepool Borough Council, is Not a Laughing matter, for ordinary Hartlepool people to Dare to Criticise their Elected ward Councillors all Members of the Hartlepool Labour Council is often seen like a Personal Criticism of the Queen,
and to do so , you would, in all probability, be quickly labelled as a trouble-maker, a Crack - Pot- who is in urgent need of some type of mental treatment ? Or threatened with legal proceedings ?
(a Solicitors Letter from Peter Devlin, is the flavour of the month in Hartlepool-)
It suit’s the local Hartlepool Labour Political rulers that way- it limits Complaints- and keeps some sort of lid on resentments- allegations of Corruption, Planning irregularities, arrogance and incompetence are quickly ignored, kicked into the long grass, or claimed they where NEVER received, ? As my last letter to the Mayor of Hartlepool -STUART DRUMMOND Highlights?
To quote Mandy Rice-Davies – “He would say that wouldn’t he?”
A few Hartlepool People , having lately lost their wonderful “University Hospital” are now beginning at last, to ask questions which they are entitled to do, where is our money going,? how Competent are the people “Running the Show” Who is in command of the Ship ? and will they continue to be Deceived -Lied too- Stone-walled- insulted,- for having the Courage to ask a question-. ? I believe the Answer is “YES”
A healthy -honest group of Elected Councillors should not be frightened or apprehensive of scrutiny- yet many in Hartlepool are very reluctant, indeed some appear to be terrified to investigate reported allegation of misconduct WHY ?
The answer my friends, is very simple, and anyone with an iota of common sense and ten minutes worth of research can see that the problem is -Self Interest-what’s in it for me attitude, that the most important thought in the minds of the majority of our Labour Councillors
They all appear much better off after Election- than they were before?
Does anyone remember or know of “ONE” ex- Labour Councillor having to apply for Financial Assistance after leaving Office?
Will I now get another Solicitors Letter?
It was my Understanding , (this information I have found in the Public Domain,) that Town Solicitors only have the right to make representation on behalf of the Council as a Whole ….and I thought they have “NO” right to make representation on behalf of individual labour Councillors on ‘personal’ matters, if that is so, then I believe they overstep their contract of employment.? But then who cares ! After all this is Hartlepool?
Time to report it to the police, I hear you all say? That is the advice of IAIN WRIGHT Member of Parliament for Hartlepool & lately the Advice of the Democratically Elected Mayor of Hartlepool , STUART DRUMMOND, to whom I have lately Complained ? Will I receive any better treatment there ?
One can only wait and See, I most certainly intend to Report my Concerns to the Police.
After all is said & done, although , I am “NOT” anti -authority, one can’t help being a little apprehensive of reporting any allegations of Criminal Misconduct of Council Officials to Cleveland Police after reading all the Media reports lately ?
The Evening Gazette Report published on March 22, 2013, stated that :-
NINE ARRESTED UNDER CLEVELAND POLICE CORRUPTION PROBE ARE TO BE REBAILED -THOSE ON BAIL INCLUDE THE FORCE’S FORMER CHIEF CONSTABLE SEAN PRICE- & THE FORMER CHAIRMAN OF CLEVELAND POLICE AUTHORITY COUNCILLOR DAVE McLUCKIE Both have denied any wrongdoing
on the 5th April 2013, the Northern Echo reported that the Sacked DEPUTY CHIEF CONSTABLE OF CLEVELAND POLICE DEREK BONNARD has appealed against the decision.
What a sad state of Affairs ?
It is to be remembered & I will continue to Protest, I am NOT the Villain in this Property Planning Dispute, I am the innocent victim of a Deliberate Despicable Deceitful attempt by Richard Trow, an Official in the Hartlepool Council’s Planning Department to “GRANT” a Retrospective Planning Application H/2009/0568 knowing the kitchen extension was structurally Unsound & Unsafe & did not comply with the Statutory Building or Safety Fire Regulations? and had been erected on part of Registered Freehold Land & Property which Was “NOT” in the Registered Ownership of the Applicant,
The victims of crime have the right to be heard- & NOT treated as Criminals
Friday, 29 March 2013
WILL DRUMMOND INVESTIGATE AS PROMISED - DOUBTFUL
From Stuart Drummond, Mayor of Hartlepool
MONDAY 25TH March 2013.
Dear Mr. Flounders,
I have spoken to the legal department and checked back through the records and it appears you have chosen NOT to make an Official Complaint through the Council's Official Complaints Procedure. I understand you have been advised in the past that the complaints procedure would be your best option.
This option is still open to you if you wish to make an official complaint and I will be happy to send you out further details if you wish to pursue this avenue.
I briefly explained in my previous email how the different stages of this procedure would work.
I must reiterate that I have absolutely no authority to investigate allegations of a criminal nature and suggest once again that you take those to the police.
Best wishes,
Stuart
MY answer to the above , POSTED Friday, 29 March 2013
Dear Stuart Drummond, Mayor of Hartlepool,
Thank you for your latest reply, received on Monday 25th March 2013, regarding my Allegations of Misconduct by Some of your Council Staff in my Letter of Friday 22nd March 2013
It is my Clear Understanding from your letters , that you claim that “NONE” of my very Serious Complaints of Misconduct involving the Planning Officials Richard Trow, & Mr Reece , Development Control Manager OR any of my other Allegation of misconduct, Concerning Alyson Carman, Solicitor & Complaint Reviewer, Hilary Martin Solicitor, & F.O.I. Officer, & Others , Were never brought to YOUR attention, ?
The Truthfulness of your explanation I fully accept , without any reservations, I have no Reasons to doubt the Truth of your Statement, that at NO stage . since August 2008, (My Very First Complaint) were You informed by Your Legal or Planning Departments Employees, of any of my Serious Allegations of Misconduct by Hartlepool Council Officials ?
What I Personally Find very difficult if Not impossible to accept, is the Accuracy of your other comments you made, after Checking through the Records, You say, it appears that I have chosen NOT to have made an “Official Complaint through the Council’s Official Complaints Procedure ?
This Statement is Completely and Totally Utter Nonsense, ? Nothing Could Be Further From
The Truth .
I believe this is yet a another Smoke-Screen, another attempt to divert attention away from the Truth of my Allegations of Staff Misconduct, ? An attempt to Cover up & kick into the Long Grass the Misconduct of Members of the Council Staff.
Hindsight is a Wonderful thing, Fortunately, I had anticipated such a scenario after I had previously encountered the Standard reply in answer to some of my embarrassing F.O.I. Questions & Planning Complaints to Hartlepool Borough Council, Letters have been LOST, MISPLACED or NEVER RECEIVED etc, etc, so I deliberately kept some Copies of my Correspondence Consisting of Letters, E-Mails “SENT” and “RECEIVED” to Hartlepool Borough Council, to Disprove your Statements ?
I am sad to note Your Failure to accept my Invitation to Visit my Home & Inspect & Personally see , the Serious Structural Damage to Private Property, by Cowboy Builders of the Unsound Carbuncle of the Offending Kitchen Extension, originally built without Council Planning Permission or the Property Owners Consent & Leaving an Unsafe & possible Life threatening situation behind, of Fire and Explosion, when they Deliberately BLOCKED -OFF the Gas Ventilation Ducts preventing the Escape of Toxic Gas Fumes to the Outside atmosphere, and Depriving the Legal Owners of the SAFE USE of the Detached Outside Washing Facilities ?
I believe that the Planning Officers on this particular Case, were totally wrong,
In Spite of a Number of Clear Contraventions of all Building & Health & Safety Regulations, & Property Ownership Requirements, it was it was “GIVEN” Retrospective Building Approval by Richard Trow Case Planning Officer & Mr Reece Development Control Manager, without any Involvement or Input from the Planning Committee?- & Despite Strong Protests from the Legal Owner of the Freehold Property Illegally Built On- Me,-- Unbelievable- - But True !
Building regulations are Statutory Instruments, yet they were all Totally Ignored? Fire Safety, Ignored Ventilation, Ignored? Drainage & Waste Disposal Ignored etc. etc. etc, Hartlepool Planning Officers appear to be Above the Law , they even Ignored the Guidance Notes Handed Down by High Court Judge Sir Thayne Forbes on RETROSPECTIVE Planning !
I wish to remind you that my very first letter of Complaint was Submitted in Writing, and Posted on the Hartlepool internet Planning Site, in August 2008 after a meeting with Richard Trow in Bryan Hanson House,? To Inspect the Drawings prepared by Richard Trow himself? for the Proposed Kitchen Extension. ? No Conflict of Interest There Then ?
It is also Important to Remember, I had, at a Face-To-Face Meeting with ALYSON CARMAN, SOLICITOR, held in the Municipal Offices In December 2008/ January 2009 to Fully Discuss my Plann Complaintings & Freehold Property Ownership Concerns, I had Purchased the Freehold Property from Hartlepool Borough Council, & felt Hartlepool Borough Council had a Duty of Care to any Purchaser of Ex-Council Property, ALYSON CARMAN, SOLICITOR, Requested & Received in Person , an “Official Copy” of the Entries in the Registered Title CE74844 “Absolute” Timed & Dated On the 9th October 2008 timed at 10.55.27. Issued by Land Registry Durham, on 10th October 2008. & a Copy of the MORTGAGE Redemption Certificate signed by the Senior Financial Officer of Hartlepool Borough Council, Proof that the Property was “MORTGAGE” free . Freehold Completely Paid For, !
Under s 67 of the Land Registration Act 2002 this “Official Copy” is admissible in evidence in a Court of Law to the same extent as the “Original” first Filed & Registered with Land Registry Durham, 29th 3.1984 !
When you say Mr Drummond that there is NO records of my Complaints ?
Are you Suggesting that the Important Face-to-Face Meeting with
ALYSON CARMAN a Senior Town Solicitor to discuss my Complaint on Planning & the Legal Ownership of the Freehold Land & Property, We had Purchased & Paid for, from the “Seller” Hartlepool Borough Council, was “NOT” noted, or Recorded, and NOT reported to the Chief Solicitor? PETER DEVLIN, ?
IF you have been told Falsehoods, that NO such Face-to-Face meeting took place ? It would Simply highlight that a Disgraceful and Unhealthy Situation exists in Hartlepool Borough Council, & indicates clearly to me & may cause concerns among many other interested Tax Payers of the town that Paid Staff employed in the Legal & Planning Departments, Who knowing the very Serious Nature of my Complaints & Allegations, were Grossly Incompetent & Negligent of their Duties & Responsibilities in Public Office, by Concealing the Facts from Yourself !
Conclusion of Incompetence of some of your Staff, is therefore inescapable when one Considers this vital Information , supplied by yourself, that you were Unaware of Serious allegations of Misconduct is it not possible that some other very Important Planning Decisions may have been made by others in your Council, without your knowledge,? A very serious situation ?
Openness & Transparency, are the foundation of accountability. virtues we are entitled to expect from our council, it's employees and councillors
Local people should be able to hold politicians and public bodies to account over how their council tax is being spent, and decisions made on their behalf.”
I am Disappointed to note Mr Drummond, that you also appear, once again, NOT to have Bothered to Inspect my Freedom of Information Requests, all Still available , on the WhatDoTheyKnow Internet Site when you where Checking Back though the Records, I draw your Attention in Particularly to my Requests to The F.O.I. Officer Hilary Martin for COPIES of the Fraudulent Documents “A”B”C”or “D” in which the Retrospective Applicant H/2009/0568 had Falsely & Deceitfully Submitted, their Claims of Part Ownership of the Registered Freehold Land & Property CE74844 “Absolute” were COPIES WERE REFUSED TO ME --“REFUSED” WHY -WHY-WHY?
IS IT POSSIBLE THAT PRODUCTION OF THESE OWNERSHIP DOCUMENTS , WOULD HAVE VERY QUICKLY EXPOSED THAT -THE RETROSPECTIVE APPLICATION
H 2009/0568 NOW SEEKING RETROSPECTIVE PLANNING PERMISSION CONTAINED FRAUDULENT DOCUMENTS CLAIMING OWNERSHIP OF FREEHOLD LAND & PROPERTY, ALREADY BUILT ON , WAS NOT IN FACT, IN THEIR REGISTERED OWNERSHIP?
It should also be remembered & given very Serious Though , that these fraudulent documents , falsely Claiming ownership of the Freehold Property already built on had been INSPECTED & VALIDATED as CORRECT ? By the OFFICIALS of the PLANNING DEPARTMENT,
My Written F.O.I. request for a REVIEW of HILARY MARTIN’S Refusal to Give me Copies, I submitted to the Complaints Reviewer ALYSON CARMAN, was also REFUSED , YES, HILARY MARTIN’S REFUSAL OF MY REQUEST WAS UPHELD by the very same ALYSON CARMAN SOLICITOR , & COMPLAINTS REVIEWER who it is Important to Remember, had, a Face-To-Face Meeting , held in the Municipal Offices In December 2008/ January 2009 to Fully Discuss my Complaints & Property Ownership Concerns, and had Requested & Received in Person a Timed & Dated “Official Copy” of the Entries in the Registered Title CE74844 “Absolute” On the 9th October 2008 timed at 10.55.27. Issued by Land Registry Durham, on 10th October 2008.
THERE CAN BE LITTLE DOUBT ALYSON CARMAN SOLICITOR & COMPLAINTS REVIEWER WAS FULLY AWARE THAT THE APPLICANTS OF H/2009/0568 SEEKING RETROSPECTIVE PLANNING APPROVAL FROM HARTLEPOOL BOROUGH COUNCIL ,WERE “NOT” THE REGISTERED LEGAL OWNER OF THE FREEHOLD LAND & PROPERTY THEY HAD PREVIOUSLY & ILLEGALLY BUILT ON ?
( This my request, for a Complaints Review still available to view on this blog and on the WhatDoTheyKnow Internet Site, and still remains Unanswered)
Freedom of Information is "NOT" available in HartlepoolReply to Hayley Martin for update of my request - Request to Hartlepool Council by alan harvey flounders. Annotated by alan harvey flounders on 11 January 2011. * Awaiting internal review. * Tuesday 1...2 years ago
Friday, 22 March 2013
WILL DRUMMOND INVESTIGATE AS PROMISED
Friday, 22 March 2013
Dear Mr Drummond,
Thank You for your rather Curt Response, more like a Reprimand to my detailed but nevertheless Very Courteous reply to your correspondence which I receive on Tuesday 19th March 2013.
Following the Letter I sent to The Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on his comments in a letter to Hilary Ben the Shadow Communities Secretary Published in the Public Domain, on the undercover investigation into the System of Deciding Planning Permission "Despite Strong Opposition from Residents".?
I wish to remind you Mr Drummond, that in your reply to me “YOU”Very clearly Stated that you had a quick skim through my blog http://alanflounders.blogspot.co.UK/ and there appears to be
A lot of finger Pointing but YOU are Struggling and are at a Loss to Understand & Pin Point where the Issues Lie ?
Your Words Mr Drummond, “NOT” mine ?
I Sincerely and Strongly feel that my Reply to you was both Polite Clear and Informative & addressed the Important Issues of Planning Concerns which YOU very clearly stated “YOU” were at a LOSS to Understand, ?
I also Strongly believe that as a Full Tax Paying Member of the Hartlepool Public I am entitled like any other citizen to receive from You the Elected Mayor of Hartlepool, or any Other Elected Councillor, a Similar Polite, Sensible Response to any Correspondence, I may Send ?
I believe your reply is Distinctly Insulting & Definitely Perverse? Unlike yourself, I am Reluctant to advise anyone on how they Write and phrase their Questions? Your Attitude is I feel very unfriendly,
And does “NOT” follow the “The Seven Principles of Public Life”
Know as the “Nolan Principles” particularly “Accountability”
It is Obvious to me that You have still failed to Read and Digest any of my Criminal Allegations, contained in my Blog, you state that before
You approach any of the Council officers regarding my complaint, could I tell you if I have been through the Council’s official Complaints procedure?
May I again remind You If you were to re-read my letter, you will very Clearly See I have answered that Question , with the following extract from my Letter YOU Received!
“I thank you & fully appreciate that you are Willing to Investigate my Criminal Allegations, Formal Complaints & Freedom of Information Requests, which , IT MUST BE REMEMBERED
I Have been Making since August 2008, using the WhatDoTheyKnow Internet Site, (Still Available) & Hartlepool Council’s Complaint Procedure, a Complaints Procedure I found to be Total Rubbish, the Claims that Letters & E-Mails were not Delivered or Lost in Transit have been unbelievable ”?
I Firmly and Honestly Believe I have Furnished “YOU” the Elected Mayor of Hartlepool with Sufficient Documentary Evidence for you to Start an Official Investigation into the Highly Suspicious and Disgraceful Conduct of some of the Officials in the Planning & Legal Departments?
I Wish to say this once again We purchased our Registered Freehold Land and Property (Ex-Council) from Hartlepool Borough Council, in February 1984, by “Mortgage” & we Have all the Legal Documents of Purchase & Registration to Prove it,
I am NOT the Villain in this Property Planning Dispute, I am the innocent victim of a Deliberate Despicable attempt by Richard Trow, an Official in Your Planning Department, who abused his position of Case Planning Officer to GRANT a Controversial Retrospective Planning Application H/2009/0568 Knowing the Structural Unsound Kitchen Extension was Part erected on Registered Freehold Land & Property which Was “NOT” in the Registered Ownership of the Applicant,
in addition He Had Known that the Cowboy Builders , in Blocking the Gas Ventilation Ducts to the Outside atmosphere were making the Outbuildings Unsafe , & creating a Highly Dangerous & Life Threatening Situation, which Prevented our Legal Use of the Outbuilding & Washing Facilities?
Explained in Detail on Blog. http://alanflounders.blogspot.co.UK/
If you are Sufficiently Interested Mr Drummond, in exposing wrongdoing by some members of Hartlepool Borough Council, you are Welcome to Contact Me, to Inspect my Legal Documentation, Photographs & a number of E-Mails previously sent to Officers of Hartlepool Borough Council, and to Visit my Home and Inspect this Unsafe Carbuncle of a Extension, Illegally Erected and Physically attached causing Substantial Structural Damage to my Freehold Land & Property, Please Let Me Know .
Yours Sincerely
Alan Harvey Flounders
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
PLANNING INVESTIGATION PROMISED By STUART DRUMMOND
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
AS a Result of my Recent published Letter toThe Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government on his comments in a letter to Hilary Ben the Shadow Communities Secretary Published in the Public Domain, on Wednesday 13th March 2013, Copy to Stuart Drummond Mayor of Hartlepool, I received the Following reply from Stuart Drummond on Tuesday 19th March 2013.
Dear Mr. Flounders,
Thank you for your recent correspondence. Can you outline exactly what criminal activity has taken place in your opinion, what you have done about it and what the response has been to date please? I had a quick skim through your blog and there appears to be a lot of finger pointing but I’m struggling to pin point where the issue lies.
You are making serious allegations and I am more than happy to follow them up so it would be useful if you gave me a brief and simple chronological order of events and your allegations.
Best wishes,
Stuart
My Reply Sent to Stuart Drummond, Mayor of Hartlepool,
Wednesday, 20 March 2013
Dear Sir,
Thank you for your prompt reply to the Letter to
The Rt Hon Eric Pickles MP - Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, highlighting my Allegations of Continued Criminal Misconduct by both Elected & Non-Elected Members of Hartlepool Borough Council,
I thank you & fully appreciate that you are Willing to Investigate my Criminal Allegations, Formal Complaints & Freedom of Information Requests, which , it must be remembered, I have been making since August 2008, using the WhatDoTheyKnow Internet Site, & Hartlepool Council’s Complaint procedure, a Complaints Procedure I found to be Total Rubbish, the Claims that Letters & E-Mails were not Delivered or Lost in Transit have been unbelievable,
If as I suspect, you are now saying that you have been Unaware of any of my Past Criminal Allegations, then I Must point out to you Sir, that I am Disappointed to learn, that, as Elected Mayor of Hartlepool, the Most Senior Person in any Council, I think YOU have been very poorly Served by the Following Paid Employees of your Staff, who Individually, were all made aware of my Formal Complaints by Letter or E-Mail ? And some, such as Alyson Carman Solicitor, and Complaints Reviewer , requested & received Official Copies of Legal Documents as Proof of Ownership at individual Meetings ?
Dave Stubs, Director of regeneration & Neighbourhoods,
Stuart Green, Development Control,
Paul Burgon Enforcement Officer
Stuart Metcalf ?
Alyson Carman , Solicitor
Hayley Martin F.O.I. Officer
& Many Others including Labour Councillors, Cook, Griffin & Tempest, But it appears that not one Person of your Staff, or Elected Councillors, appears to have reported my Very Serious Fraudulent Concerns to You ?
I also find it difficult to understand your Comments that you have had a quick “skim” through my Blog.http://alanflounders.blogspot.co.UK/ and there appears to be a lot of Finger Pointing but YOU are struggling and are at loss understand & Pin Point where the Issues Lie ?
While NOT being a Legally Qualified Person, I though my Criminal Allegations were quite easily followed, I.e. The Legally Flawed “Granting” of the Retrospective Planning Application H2009/0568 by Richard Trow, Case Planning Officer, without “ANY” involvement of the Elected Councillors of the Planning Committee, clearly shows he had a Personal Interest in the Granting of the Retrospective application H/2009/0568, Knowing that it was built on Land & Property “NOT” in the Applicants H /2009/0568 Registered “Property Ownership” ?
Common Sense, dictates that No-one can built any thing onto a neighbours Registered Freehold Land & Property without authority, Everyone knows , you must “Own” the Registered Freehold Land & Property, you may wish to Built Onto? Before applying for Council Planning Permission.
Although I have no wish to be Critical of your inability to understand my Correspondence, I am an Elderly ( 80 year old ) Tax Paying Citizen and yet , I find my allegations Easily to understand? To simplify it ?
I Repeat - Ownership of Freehold Land & Property to Build on, is a “Statutory Requirement” as required by article 7 of the Town & Country Planning Order 1995, you Cannot Legally Build “ANYTHING” on Freehold Land & Property “NOT” in your “Ownership” ?
For the Retrospective applicant H2009/0568 to try and obtain a Certificate of Lawfulness by Deception, by submitting Certificates “A” “B” “C” &”D” Falsely claiming “Ownership” of Registered Freehold Property Previously Built on Without permission of the Legal Owners-
is clearly Fraudulent, as explained in the Guidance handed down by the High Court Judge
Sir Thayne Forbes Judgements on Retrospective Applications -
The Case Planning Officer Richard Trow Knew, when Supporting the Retrospective Applicant , H/2009/0568 who was the Registered Legal Owners of the Freehold Land & Property, unlawfully built on, and who, by his Own admission , was the “Original” Draughtsman of the Drawing included in the Controversial Retrospective Planning Application H/2009/0568 for the Kitchen Extension, submitted to the Hartlepool Borough Council I.e. To the Case Planning Officer Richard Trow, “Himself” for approval?
Surprise -Surprise- this application was Granted, Nothing like marking Your Own Examination Papers?
This I believe is Blatant “Fraud” Fraud by abuse of position Section 4. Of the FRAUD ACT 2006.?
I Fully Understand that my Criminal Allegation are Serious, and will happily supply you with a Chronological History of Events to support my Criminal allegations. Including Photographs & an “Official Copy” of the Registered Ownership Title Deeds CE 74844 “Absolute” which Prove Absolute Freehold Ownership, !
Yours Sincerely
Alan Harvey Flounders
Friday, 15 March 2013
PLANNING INVESTIGATION & LAW BREAKERS
A Letter to :-
eric.pickles@communities.gsi.gov.uk
Planning investigation: you may have broken law, councillors told
Dear Mr Eric Pickles , local Government Secretary,
I wish to congratulate you for your recent Comments in a letter to Hilary Benn, the Shadow Communities Secretary published in the Public Domain on Wednesday 13th March 2013. As a result of an undercover investigation into the system of deciding planning permission despite strong opposition from residents, ?
If you wish and care to see further Evidence and Information in support of your comments, I Wish to draw your attention that there are other serious Legally Flawed Retrospective Planning Applications been “Illegally Granted” concerning Building Extensions, built Without Council Planning Permission or the Legal Owners Consent, on Freehold Land & Property “NOT” in the Registered Ownership of the Retrospective applicant , a Statutory Requirement as required by Article 7 of the Town and Country Planning Order 1995,”
In answer to a F.O.I. request, I submitted to “Your” Department of Communities and Local Government I received the following Reply on 1st September 2010, from Jillian Hastings, MRTPI, Planning Development Management ! “Completed Ownership Certificates A, B, C ,or D, Remain a Statutory Requirement,”
This Statutory Requirement Was Completely Ignored by the Case Planning Officer, Richard Trow,
All my Freedom of Information Requests are Available on the
(What Do They Know Site) !
If you wish to Further Confirm and Validate the Truth of my Criminal allegations which are fully supported by Legally accepted Indefeasible Documentary evidence of Freehold Property “Ownership”, on an “Official Copy” of the Register of Title CE74844 “Absolute” Issued by Land Registry, Durham, on
10th October 2008, shows the Entries in the Register of Title on 9th October 2008 at 10.55.27.
Under s67 of the Land Registry Act 2002, this “Copy” is admissible in evidence to the same extent as the “Original” filed with Land Registry, Durham in both the Property & Proprietorship Registers on the 29.3.1984.?
May I suggest you Read my personal experiences published on my Blog,
http://alanflounders.blogspot.co.uk/ highlighting the unacceptable
Planning Corruption involving both Elected Labour Councillors and unelected Legal & Planning officials of the Labour Dominated Hartlepool Borough Council,? There’s an unacceptable culture of secrecy and of dishonesty around the very suspicious activities of Hartlepool Borough Council, in Particular Labour Councillors seem more interested in protecting the Questionable Integrity of their friends in high places rather than the legally purchased Freehold Property Interests of the citizens in their ward.!
Please Note
If anything I have Published is NOT TRUE, WHY have NONE of the Named Hartlepool Borough Council Individuals, Commenced Legal Proceedings against Me for Slander or Whatever Crime, they can think of, in the Past FIVE (5) years, !
To date, Friday, 15 March 2013 not one of them has DISPUTED any of My Criminal Allegations,! I Wonder Why?
Here is a Copy of my recent letter sent to Stuart Drummond, Highlighting Very Similar Dishonest Criminal Planning Activities I have Personally encountered here in Hartlepool ,
THE MONKEY MAYOR OF HARTLEPOOL STUART DRUMMOND, CAN’T SAY HE WAS’NT TOLD OF ANY HANKY-PANKY ?
Dear Mr Drummond, Mayor of Hartlepool,
For some time past I have been publishing in the Public Domain
Some very Serious but Truthful Allegations of Criminal Fraudulent Misconduct & Malfeasance in Public Office, against some of the Senior Unelected Hartlepool Borough Council Officials in both the Legal & Planning Departments which have “ALL” been “Ignored “, I have also Criticized & expressed my disapproval of a Number of LABOUR Elected De-Brus Ward Councillors, COOK, GRIFFIN & TEMPEST, for THEIR failure to Investigate my Concerns, and in addition , I have distributed copies, of these published allegation of Criminality to the Following,
1.
The Member of Parliament for Hartlepool IAIN WRIGHT M.P.
& the Three (3) Elected Members of the European Parliament,
Fiona Hall (Liberal Democrat)
Stephen Hughes (Labour)
Martin Callanan (Conservative)
2.
In the highly Unlikely Event, You have “NOT” been previously informed of my Continued Peaceful Protest, to Expose these Criminal activities, and to prevent any claim “you might wish to make” in the future that you were Completely Unaware of my Allegations of Criminality, Committed during YOUR
TERM of OFFICE ? I intend to include Your Office in all future distributions of my Publications, referring to my personal experiences of Criminal Misconduct.
Yours Sincerely,
Alan Harvey Flounders
http://alanflounders.blogspot.co.uk/
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