Dear Mrs Oliver
Thank you for your email.
The complaint regarding Michael Cullen and myself has been forwarded to the Neighbourhoods team and the Planning teams who are responding to your two other related complaints and will address this complaint at the same time. As you will appreciate, I cannot investigate or comment on a complaint about myself.
When you receive that response, if you are dissatisfied, it will advise you on how to escalate your complaint to Stage 2 and if you are still not satisfied with your response you can then write to the Ombudsman.
Kind regards
Vicki Bates
(She/Her)
Assistant Director – Legal & Democratic Governance
Monitoring Officer
(Legal, Democratic and Electoral Services and Information Governance)
Corporate and Support Services
Legal Department
Stockport Council
Room 325
Town Hall
Edward Street
Stockport
SK1 3XE
Direct: 0161 474 3219 / 07815 715 625
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From: Sheila Oliver <sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com>
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2024 3:52 PM
To: Vicki Bates <vicki.bates@stockport.gov.uk>; Michael Cullen <michael.cullen@stockport.gov.uk>
Subject: RE: External: Please elevate my complaint about Padden Brook to the next level so I can complain to the Local Authority Ombudsman
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Dear Ms Bates
Oh, I wish to.
But my further complaint is about you and the Chief Executive. People paid such high salaries should act on information received and not, in football parlance, just show up. That is why I always go to the top where ultimately the responsibility lies.
The landowner at Padden Brook should be informed that it is not remotely possible that he will be given planning permission to build houses. Then he might stop his ongoing destruction of the land. I asked an EIR request about what the Council had said to him. Do you remember? No response yet and seriously overdue.
As with the ludicrous planning decision at Hatherlow Sunday School where permission for 11 apartments was given with no parking spaces whatsoever, I wonder if the Council’s dear friend, Mr Planning Corruption, has popped in again (Aquinas, Offerton Precinct, the still gassing toxic waste dump primary school – documentary evidence available again on request).
I await your further response.
Yours
Sheila
From: Vicki Bates [mailto:vicki.bates@stockport.gov.uk]
Sent: 11 October 2024 15:41
To: ‘Sheila Oliver’
Cc: Emma Curle
Subject: RE: External: Please elevate my complaint about Padden Brook to the next level so I can complain to the Local Authority Ombudsman
Dear Mrs Oliver
I understand that you have put two complaints in through the online complaints system in relation to Padden Brook with references 101007735713 and 101007733982 which are currently being dealt with.
Once you have received the answers to those you will be provided with details of how to escalate your complaint to the next stage should you wish to.
Kind regards
Vicki Bates
(She/Her)
Assistant Director – Legal & Democratic Governance
Monitoring Officer
(Legal, Democratic and Electoral Services and Information Governance)
Corporate and Support Services
Legal Department
Stockport Council
Room 325
Town Hall
Edward Street
Stockport
SK1 3XE
Direct: 0161 474 3219 / 07815 715 625
***Please note that if you receive this email from me outside of usual office hours I do not expect a response from you***
From: Sheila Oliver <sheilaoliver@ntlworld.com>
Sent: Friday, October 11, 2024 8:48 AM
To: Vicki Bates <vicki.bates@stockport.gov.uk>; Michael Cullen <michael.cullen@stockport.gov.uk>; Leader <leader@stockport.gov.uk>
Subject: External: Please elevate my complaint about Padden Brook to the next level so I can complain to the Local Authority Ombudsman
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Dear Ms Bates
Next level of complaints process please.
Kind regards
Sheila
