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£120,000 spent on drainage? I doubt it!

Vale View School Posted on Sun, November 10, 2013 20:39

Flooding on what would be the football pitch at Harcourt Street if dodgy Stockport Council had bothered to put one there, as per Sport England’s stipulation



Flippin’ ‘eck, Khan to be dragged through the courts!

Vale View School Posted on Tue, October 29, 2013 17:23

Email sent – October 28, 2013 6:56 AM

Dear Mr Khan …

Please see the attached ICO decision ref my FOIA request ref my FOIA complaint that your school is operating in a legal void.

There is nothing in this ICO decision which would cause me to retract my claims that the Vale View school is still operating in a legal void.

This decision was published on the ICO website and as of today, I have not received an offical copy of the ICO decision!

Pleased be advised that I intend to elevate this matter to the First Tier Tribunal.

My primary concerns are for the H&S and the welfare of the children and staff attending the Vale View school and your consistent denial that there are no H&S issues at the schools is at best disingenuous and at worst willful bindness and criminal negligent; I suggest the latter.

Your actions and inactions are exposing the children and staff to life-threatening dangers.

In the interest of public safety may I suggest /recommend a joint occular inspection of the school with a HSE representative and myself and possibly Mrs Sheila Oliver, who shares my concerns and who is also be “stonewalled ” by you Mr Khan.

For your information, action and files.

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield



They won’t allow anyone to ask questions about Vale View

Vale View School Posted on Sun, October 27, 2013 16:57

So, if the kids get frazzled by lightning, who cares? Not Stockport Council.

http://iloapp.olliesemporium.co.uk/blog/blog?Home&post=104



Executive Councillors banning questions about road safety as vexatious as of 21/10/13

Vale View School Posted on Thu, October 24, 2013 05:11

These are those responsible past and present for not allowing this matter to be raised. In the event of the death of a child, hopefully they will face corporate manslaughter charges. Wouldn’t you have thought with her track record of already having caused a death, Councillor Shan Alexander would act a bit more responsibly?


The Executive Councillors are still banning questions on this subject as “vexatious”. Should anyone be voting for these unaccountable, dangerous people?

All through the long Vale View School process I and other people have pointed out the very dangerous traffic situation they would be creating. They banned me asking any council meeting or FOI questions on this subject since circa 2006.

Within one month of the school opening the police had complained to the Council about the dangerous traffic situation, as had many local residents. Have the Executive Councillors apologised to me? No, of course not, and they are still banning questions from me as of 21/10/13.

This is the nature of area where they put their toxic school:-


The entrance to the school is where the blue asterisk is on the photo below. Half of the houses in the photo below have to leave the area down narrow Mill Lane past the school. What sort of dangerous lunatics would put a school and a school entrance there? Answer, LibDem lunatics and dodgy council officers.
This is the police reporting their genuine concerns:


The above document can be more clearly read here – http://www.sheilaoliver.org/traffic.html

I was completely correct about the traffic, as I was regarding the school being built too small. I lost a child in a road accident, which was nobody’s fault.
http://www.sheilaoliver.org/dedication.html

How dare these appalling LibDems councillors accuse me of being vexatious for raising genuine road safety concerns around a primary school – concerns shared by the police. Don’t vote for these dangerous lunatics.
The above document can be more clearly read here –http://www.sheilaoliver.org/traffic.html

A couple of days before the planning meeting, the Highways Officer, Nick Whelan, said he hadn’t realised how big the school was going to be and the traffic arrangements were inadequate. Why had this man only just realised – I had had a meeting with him six months previously to point this very matter out.



Lack of school places to cost us £81m, so why deliberately build Vale View School too small

Vale View School Posted on Thu, October 24, 2013 04:02

The documents below can be more easily read at – http://www.sheilaoliver.org/not-big-enough-one-year-on.html

28th April 2006

“..this building will be designed to teach 525 children …… CM (Colin Manning) produced C&YPD’s (Children and Young People’s Directorate) predictions of 563 children if all children currently at the Firtree and North Reddish are offered places.”

They had in October 2005 published an official notice promising all parents who wanted a place at the new school could have one – a promise they could never deliver.

They went on to come up with potential solutions – restrict numbers to 525, provide temporary classrooms until the roll dropped to around 525, increase class sizes, which was felt by said Colin Manning to be cramming children in and unacceptable from an education point of view according to him or they could build new classroom to accommodate the extra children, but the development was so tight for space this was never an option.

In response to a FOI request from me they admitted the birth rate in the area was rising sharply, so the school was never going to be big enough whatever they did.

WHY BUILD IT THEN? WHY NOT BUILD ON THE FIR TREE SITE OR RENOVATE THE EXISTING SCHOOLS? ANSWER, BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO FLOG OFF THE FIR TREE SITE FOR HOUSING AND WERE NOT INTERESTED AT ANY POINT IN THE WELFARE OF THE CHILDREN.

The executive councillors were warned several years ago, as were Director of Children’s Services Andrew Webb and Deputy Director Donna Sager, why waste £10million of council taxpayers’ money on a school which was always going to be too small?

Within one year of the Vale View School opening they were talking of having to re-open the old North Reddish School. They have now spent a fortune expanding Broadstone School, which is nowhere near.


The people responsible for this offence under the Fraud Act 2006 (it is an offence to act deliberately to cause someone a loss) then branded me as vexatious for raising the matter with them. No accountability at Stockport Council under the LibDems! Sager and Webb, responsible for a massive loss to the counciltaxpayer which they were aware of all through this project, banned all questions from me as being “vexatious”. They were merely covering up their own fraudulent actions.

As of 21st October 2013 all Executive Councillors are still banning all questions from me about this school as “vexatious”, as they have done for many years. They themselves are committing an offence under the Fraud Act 2006, as it is an offence to block access to documents pertaining to a fraud.

These are the Executive Councillors, past and present, responsible for blocking evidence along with Barry Khan, Council Solicitor and Eamonn Boylan, Chief Executive:

Susan Derbyshire, Leader
Mark Weldon
Martin Candler
Shan Alexander
Stuart Bodsworth
Keith Holloway
Wendy Meikle
Kevin Hogg
John Smith
David White
Iain Roberts

These people consider themselves unaccountable, so why vote for them?



Does Council Solicitor Khan ever reply to anybody?

Vale View School Posted on Sun, October 13, 2013 07:21

01 July 2013 16.57

Dear Mr Khan

As you are aware, we have two outstanding issues which you have failed to convince have been provisioned at the Vale View School:-

1.The missing external football pitch and changing rooms, which were costed into the original contact at £680K

2.The Petrol/Oil Interceptor.

Would you now please elevate these matters to your immediate line manager. As the legal advisor to SMBC, I am sure you will be fully aware of the Fraud Act 2006, and in particular misrepresentation claiming 1 &2 have been provisioned with the full knowledge they have NOT been provided is fraud.

With thanks

Yours sincerely

Alan Dransfield



Strange that!

Vale View School Posted on Sun, October 13, 2013 05:47

Stockport Council was given Department of Education and Skills TCF funding of £2,243,000 allocated to the North Reddish Primary School Scheme.

They then spent it in the following manner:-

£1,020,00 spent on the Brindale Pupil referral Unit
£ 321,000 Bradshaw Hall Primary School
£ 662,000 Dial Park Primary School
£ 240,000 Woodley Primary School

They then had to find replacement funding for the Reddish North Primary School schem.



An answer, of sorts, but why from the Enforcement Section?

Vale View School Posted on Thu, October 10, 2013 16:54

And are they now going to put the replacement playing fields there that Sport England decreed should be in place before the school opened in 2011? No doubt it is still “vexatious” of me to ask that of this iffy, LibDem run council.



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