Hi,
CC: Shaun C Connell, please.
Could you perhaps explain a few things to me and the other people that live in council housing near Invicta House.
Thanet Council boasts about finnishing Invicta House and Surrounding Council Proprties ahead of schedule but the truth is well ducument and published on-line that shows the work is unfinnished and often of questionable standards. Can you clear up for me how the litigation office of the council can deny photographic evidence of substandard work?
While you are writting your reply could you also explain how builders compleating work that is already finnished came to assult a tenant of the council? While you are explaining this: can you, perhaps, expalain how this tenant came to be threatened with eviction shortly after leaving hospital?
If that is too sensative an issue can you perhaps expalin how no safty checks or site visits were made during or after building works commisioned by the council; even after complaints of poor standards, bad workmanship, assult, sexual harrasment and raceisum were made.
http://thanetcouncil.blogspot.com/2005/02/now-please-forgive-fact-that-this.html - can you perhaps enlighten me as to how substandard and unsafe practices can be officially denied by the litigation officer dispite public evidence to the contrary?
http://thanetcouncil.blogspot.com/2005/02/this-is-all-junk-they-have-been-simply.html Could you explain how the council has managed to deny that it's builders made a regualr practice of throwing things from the scafolding throughout the working period there was scaffolding up this year (and during the dismantaling of the scaffolding)dispite photos and eye witness reports?
Yes, I am at rather a loss about that one too.
Or perhaps you would simply like to ask why a lot of money was wasted during that time and how so much paint ended up on walls and doors not owned by the council?
Perhaps you would care to visit the properties in question where even though the work is not yet compleate the paint is peeling off in places.
Can you provide us with any idea why the council and its employees insist that the builders that worked arround the invicta tower block area worked to industry standards but seem, by the same token, unable to locate or provide those standards?
I suggest that members of Thanet Council, it's staff and contacters have totally failled to ensure Council employed builders worked to a recognised standard causing money to be wasted wasted and goods that have been "reappropriated" in clear sight of the council tenants to go unnoticed.
Three out of nine doors in a single block were never painted.
A tenant was assulted.
Dangerouse working practices were used.
http://thanetcouncil.blogspot.com/2005/02/safety-is-worse-than-ever-out-there.html The windows fitted look to be FACTORY REGECTS. I have spoken to people with glazing expirence and they have all expressed shock that any one paid anything for those windows
http://thanetcouncil.blogspot.com/2005/02/here-is-view-of-school-i-dread-to.html http://thanetcouncil.blogspot.com/2005/02/yes-this-is-screw-yes-it-is-in-window.html Residents were threatened and abused.
Sexual remarks and other suggestive comments were made to single mothers in front of thier children.
Dry Fibre (Fibre Glass) was left exposed less than 100 meters from a school:
http://thanetcouncil.blogspot.com/2005/02/you-are-looking-at-image-of-fibreglass.html http://thanetcouncil.blogspot.com/2005/02/fibre-glass-left-laying-about-less.html http://thanetcouncil.blogspot.com/2005/02/fact-sheet-health-hazards-in.html See also: House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 3 May 2000 (pt 20)
Unsecured cables in public walkways was the norm for the entire stay of the builders:
http://thanetcouncil.blogspot.com/2005/02/this-is-public-pathway-and-here-is.html http://thanetcouncil.blogspot.com/2005/02/here-is-photo-that-i-was-able-to-take.html Two year old chuildren learned new four letter words begining with S, C and F.
plugged in power tools were regularly plugged in were children might get to them When I complained I was threatened.
http://thanetcouncil.blogspot.com/2005/02/this-is-highly-safe-working-conditions.html Rasist and bigotted langauge outside chuildrens bedrooms windows first thing in the morning was the norm.
Builders regularly made a practice of using the scaffolding to attempt to spy on mothers getting dressed or breast feeding.
I would like to know how all this could ever be rectified.
I would also like to know when the spending and the missing items will be audited?
It would also be good to find out who instructed the police not to interview key witnesses in the assult case, or weather they are just too incompitent to do so. The result of the failed investigation and the vast number of smashed car windows that followed the departure of builders that have never been investigated has caused many roumours of curruption to spread around the estate.
clearly someone needs to make a stand and be seen to be acting for the area.
Regards
Mr M. Brown.
This is a photo-blog of the neglect TDC has given to some areas of it's housing. This same neglect has been going on for 5 years.
This is Ian Gregory he is the Conservative representing Dane Valley (the area in question). He is a member of the Standards Committee and he works at the Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Hospital as Estate Manager. He lists building development as a special interest.
This man is Shaun C Connell he is the Labour member representing Dane Valley and his activities are listed as member of the Licensing Board.
This is Linda Aldred she is a Labour member representing Cliftonville West. She is apparently a member of the (lack of) Planning Committee and the Shadow Cabinet.
