A FULL FOLLOW UP

As promised in the last post we bring you the truth behind the complaint made against the 3 ward councillors for Gascoigne ward, Ashraf, Aziz and Twomey, who, after reading  this you may wish to rename as the 3 Stooges.

We are told that several months ago consultation took place with residents in Movers Lane and a number of roads leading off it with regard to the imposing of a CPZ we understand that Hodge is also mixed up in this somewhere.

Now when the results of what should have been a democratic vote by residents was returned it appears that in one of the longer roads in the area the majority vote was against a CPZ in fact only 12 voted for it.

Now the resident(s) contacted the Head of Service because they were concerned that little whispers were going round that the CPZ was going to be imposed anyway.

We have now seen the reply letter sent out to the resident(s) by Head of Service, now are you sitting down? it states that "the 3 ward Councillors had decided that the CPZ would only go in the areas were the 12 houses were" are they really that thick? dumb? stupid? or what, how would it work? what happens if each of these 12 houses has more than 1 car? how do the Parking Wardens work out what is in and what is out?

No you really could not make this up, so the resident(s) contacted the 3 ward councillors and raised they issues with them, and waited for a reply, and waited, and waited.

By the time the Tenants and Residents meeting took place a couple of weeks ago resident(s) had still not heard from the 3 so attended the meeting, only 1 councillor attended Aziz, when resident(s) raised the matter with him, to be fair he did try to give an answer...........well.........here it is "he could not answer resident(s) questions because council officers do NOT answer his phone calls"  .............ok you can stop laughing now.

So getting nowhere at all the resident(s) have taken the steps to lodge a complaint, now where this will be dealt with we have not been able to find out, but the 3 Stooges should be quite safe if it goes to the Standards  Board as the council has made some major changes, it no longer has an independent chair, which we believe is probably a backward step, especially as they have put Barry Poulton in as Chair.

OK you can stop laughing now............many readers of this blog will remember that Poulton had to answer to a complaint made against him to the board, they will also remember that Poulton was instructed to follow the a number of tasks set by the Board, you will also remember that Poulton refused and did not follow the instructions given.

So there you have it, we will of course keep you updated on this as soon as we get any further news.