Dear Mrs
Oliver,
I am writing in
response to your request for information (ref FOI 9439).
The information has
been prepared by the relevant Council service and is as
follows.
Stockport
Metropolitan Borough Council does not hold this information.
Yours
sincerely,
Phillipa
Nazari
CSS
Manager-Information Governance/
Deputy
SIRO
Stockport
Council
Town
Hall
Stockport
SK1
3XE
From: Sheila
Oliver [mailto:sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com]
Sent: 10 August 2014
08:17
To: FOI Officer
Subject: Dave Goddard
Consulting
Dear FoI
Officer
Am I to construe from
Lord Goddard of Offerton Precinct’s register of interests that the
above-mentioned firm is no longer trading?
I note he is working
as a consultant for a land acquistion company – he a failed taxi driver – at a
time when a lot of lovely Cheshire countryside will be opened up for infill
development around the LibDem road for votes. So, that’s all right then – all
completely innocent and no cause for concern, but I do think we need some sort
on inquiry into what went on over Offerton Precinct if the council taxpayer
loses £235,000. I spend a couple of years of my life on that, and what went on
was so dodgy it took my breath away.
I look foward to
finding out if Dave Goddard Consulting was sold on for millions, has moved
offshore or has ceased to trade due to lack of
business.
Kind
regards
Sheila
http://democracy.stockport.gov.uk/mgConvert2PDF.aspx?ID=129&T=6
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/news-opinion/stockport-council-goddard-door-chains-6707328
“It is nearly two years since Stockport council’s then leader, Lib Dem Dave Goddard, became one of the country’s more high profile casualties of the coalition backlash.
While the town hall stayed yellow in 2012’s local elections, the former taxi driver lost his Offerton seat to Labour by just a handful of votes.
It’s a hard knock life. But on it goes.
So in the spirit of pragmatism that characterises Greater Manchester politics – he was, after all, leader of Stockport when the Combined Authority was established – the Lib Dem has now joined forces with the opposition.
Not politically, but in one of various pieces of consultancy work – in this case promoting new ‘secure-ring’ door chains on behalf of Trafford-based manufacturers Cardea Solutions.Here are Stockport’s Labour MP Ann Coffey and Labour deputy crime commissioner Jim Battle (right), helping him publicise them, plus octogenarians – and grateful chain recipients – Doris and George Kidd.”
