| Topic: | FORMAL COMPLAINT Addendum 11/8/13 - the Sahota affair. | |
| Posted by: | Victor Mishiku | |
| Date/Time: | 13/08/13 12:54:00 |
| On 11th August 2013, I e-mailed to Mrs Helen Harris, Head of Legal Services, LBE my Formal Complaint including the 5-page Addendum and the 4 attachments referred to therein. The composite file can be read at the following URL: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/14377445/FormalComplaint_23.Page_document.pdf I hand-delivered a full set of the 23 page document last night at Ealing Town Hall. The covering e-mail to Mrs Harris reads: Sent: Sunday, August 11, 2013 8:52 PM Subject: Formal Complaint Addendum dated 11th August 2013 attached + Oct & Dec 2012 E-Mails, Pdf file (censored by Ealing Council) + NGL255900 + Posting 10/8/13 + Letter published 31/5/13. Mrs Helen Harris Head of Legal Services, Ealing Council Town Hall Uxbridge Road Ealing W5 Dear Mrs Harris Further to my letter to you by e-mail dated 9th August 2013 (set out below), please find attached 5 documents (all Pdf files):- COMPLAINT - 10-page Composite Document - Formal Complaint (5-pages) + Formal Complaint Addendum (5-pages), making the composite document 10 pages in all. HM LAND REGISTRY Title NGL255900 - 43 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5. E-MAILS (LBE-censored) - exchanged between The Leader, Cllr. Julian Bell's office/Dr Onkar Singh Sahota/Cllr. Julian Bell in October and December 2012, which I refer to on the 8th page of the composite document at (iv). As Ealing Council has censored the E-Mails, I trust that the originals will be supplied uncensored to The Investigator, Alex Oram Esq., so that he has all the information before him. Further Background Information - on the 8th page of the composite document, in please note that part of item (vi) is to follow (although all the information is already publicly available). With this submission. I attach my Web posting of 10th August 2013 re. the censored e-mails. The 9th and 10th pages of the composite document set out the text of Cllr. David Millican's letter published by the "Ealing & Acton Gazette" (online) on 6th August 2013 containing the 17 Questions for Cllr. Bell to answer and I see that Cllr. Millican has already supplied that letter to you. Query: In Questions 12 & 13 of Cllr. Millican's List of Questions, he enquires about the original Planning Officer, who was Ms Fiona Abrahamsen. Before the case came before the Planning Committee on the night of 13th March 2013, Ms Abrahamsen left the Council's employ. At the outset of the application 21-day consultation period, Ms Abrahamsen had visited Castlebar Road to also view from the immediately adjoining property (No.41) - something that neither Cllr. Bell nor Mr Rutherford did in October 2012 when they attended upon Dr Sahota and his Architect (whose name has been censored in the e-mail exchange of 17th October 2012). I was in fact very surprised to see the final planning report to committee for 13th March 2013 and how little consideration had been given to the objectors' observations (not helped by the report having been drafted before the re-consultation period of 14 days had been allowed to run). On 31st May 2013, the "Ealing & Acton Gazette" published a letter from Mrs Judy Jaafar in "Your Letters" (attached) which refers to this. The letter reads: "When planning ethics went Awol - I NOTE with interest in your recent article regarding Ealing Planning Services that their spokeswoman said all business is conducted with transparency and to the highest ethical standards, whilst interested parties are given ample opportunity to send in their comments. In a recent case in my area the first planning application was notified to residents for the normal 21 day commentary period. After a local campaign of objection, a second application with revised plans was immediately entered and notified to residents for an unusually curtailed 14-day period. It transpired that the planning officer's report, favourable to the developer, was completed and signed off before the end of this period, ensuring that several important letters, including one from a formally engaged planning consultant, were not even seen before the report was finalised. Exactly how transparent and ethical is that, I have to ask? Thankfully the planning committee councillors saw fit to throw the application out." ....Judith Jaafar, Ealing (by email) My query is who actually completed or partly re-wrote Ms Abrahamsen's report to committee and/or the "briefing notes" recommending favourably Dr Sahota's application, since whoever it was did not have the benefit of a site view from No.41. Furthermore, was undue pressure put on any planning officer directly or indirectly to ensure a favourable report and outcome for Dr Sahota?. The report itself was subsequently described by Planning Committee Members on 13th March 2013 as being "In defiance of reality" "Not to be trusted" "Absurd" and "An insult to the intelligence". Yours sincerely, Victor Mishiku 11th August 2013. cc. Ealing Broadway Ward Councillors, The Chief Executive LBE, Gerald Moran, Hunters, Lincolns Inn, Mrs Judy Jaafar, 41 Castlebar Road, Ealing W5, The Investigator - Alex Oram Esq and others as listed above. Attachments: 5 |