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Vicki Bates, Liz Sykes & Katie Moores Of Stockport Council Claim This Is Vexatious, But They Are Liars.

Environmental vandalism, Padden Brook, Vicki Bates Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Mon, December 29, 2025 16:49

29th December 2025

Dear Enforcement Team,

I am writing to request a formal enforcement investigation into the erection of a noticeboard on land designated as visual amenity protected land, with associated environmental and woodland protections.

Site and designation

The land in question is designated as:

  • Visual Amenity Protected Land, and
  • Protected W1 woodland / open space (as per the Local Plan and adopted policies).

These designations place a strong presumption against the introduction of permanent structures or features that detract from the character, openness, or visual quality of the land.

Nature of the development

A noticeboard has been erected on this land. It appears to be:

  • Permanent rather than temporary,
  • Freestanding, requiring physical installation,
  • Intended for public display, and therefore constitutes an advertisement structure.

To my knowledge:

  • No planning permission has been granted for this structure, and
  • No advertisement consent has been obtained under the Town and Country Planning (Control of Advertisements) Regulations 2007.

Planning and advertisement control concerns

In my understanding:

  • A permanent noticeboard constitutes development and/or advertisement display.
  • On visual amenity protected land, advertisement consent is not automatically exempt and must pass the statutory tests of amenity and public safety.
  • The erection of such a structure risks:
    • Harm to visual amenity,
    • Incremental urbanisation of protected land,
    • Setting an undesirable precedent for further structures.

If the noticeboard required excavation, posts, or foundations, this may also constitute operational development in breach of planning control.

Request

I therefore formally request that the Council:

  1. Confirms whether planning permission and/or advertisement consent exists for this noticeboard.
  2. If no consent exists, records this as a potential breach of planning and advertisement control.
  3. Assesses whether the structure is acceptable in principle on visual amenity and W1 protected land.
  4. Takes appropriate enforcement action if the development is found to be unauthorised.
  5. Provides a written outcome of the enforcement assessment.

Given the site’s protected status, I would expect any unauthorised structure to be addressed promptly to prevent ongoing harm and avoid normalising inappropriate development on protected land.

I look forward to your confirmation that this matter has been logged and is under investigation.

Yours faithfully,

Sheila Oliver
The Romiley Gazette



Thanks For The Flooding Lazy & Useless LibDem MP Lisa Smart.

Environmental vandalism, Freedom of Information, LibDem Councillors, Lisa Smart LibDem MP, Padden Brook Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sun, December 21, 2025 08:46

21st December 2025

Thanks to our lazy, useless, dodgy LibDem MP Lisa Smart and her moribund, cronyist, feckless, deadweight, local councillor jobsworths, our beloved protected green space has been destroyed and the houses are at risk of flooding, as the brook underneath the road can’t take any more water.

How it was…



Flooding In Padden Brook Brought About By Corrupt Stockport Council Officers And Local LibDem Politicians.

Environmental vandalism, Exasperated residents, LibDem Councillors, Lisa Smart LibDem MP Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sun, December 21, 2025 07:45

21st December 2025

Vegetation denudement caused by unauthorized mechanical clearing has significantly altered the protected landscape at Padden Brook.

Vick Bates, Stockport Council’s Monitoring Officer, and her team of lazy and useless council officers, Lisa Smart, LibDem MP, local councillors Mark Roberts, Angela Clark and Rachel Bresnahan allowed this. How dare they?



Anyone Asking About The 26 Green Belt Sites Stockport Council Wants To Build Housing On Is Likely To Be Blocked By Vicki Bates, Liz Sykes and Katie Moores.

Draft Local Plan, Environmental vandalism, Exasperated residents, Lisa Smart LibDem MP, More loss of green space, Padden Brook Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, October 18, 2025 14:45

18th October 2025

The Council’s Monitors Nothing Officer – Vicki Bates, Don’t Bring Your Annoying Complaints To Me Officer – Katie Moores, and the Council’s Prevention Of Information Escaping Officer – Liz Sykes are unlikely to let anyone know anything.

Over-mighty panjandrums forget who pays their wages.



Katie Moores, Stockport Council’s Don’t Bring Your Complaints To Me Officer.

Anwar Majothi, Environmental vandalism, Lisa Smart LibDem MP, Padden Brook, Vicki Bates, Monitoring Officer, Stockport Council Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Fri, October 10, 2025 16:17

10th October 2025

The last time a dodgy Stockport Council Don’t Bring Your Complaints To Me Officer, Anwar Majothi, slapped my legs (metaphorically) it was because I complained that a paedophile LibDem Executive Councillor and Lord Goddard, Wendy Meikle, Shan Alexander, Iain Roberts, et al were doing this.

Now Katie Moores, the current Stockport Council Don’t Bring Your Complaints To Me Officer, has slapped my legs again. The councillors don’t respond for 420 days and counting, nor the lazy and useless LibDem MP Lisa Smart, we have to ask again to stop wildlife crime and destruction of a protected site, and we are in the wrong.

Council Accused of Inaction Over Reported Wildlife Concerns in Romiley.


Padden Brook, The Movie.

Environmental vandalism, Exasperated residents, Freedom of Information, Information Commissioner, LibDem Councillors, Lisa Smart LibDem MP Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, August 09, 2025 13:41

The story of the LibDem Stockport shenanigans over Padden Brook, Local Wildlife Site, protected amenity land is getting a lot of website views around the World, especially in California. Perhaps they will make a film. I have started casting it. Be prepared.

Imelda Staunton – Has an uncanny knack for playing sweet-seeming but ruthless characters. Councillor Angela Clark

Matt Berry channelling that smug, evasive local politician energy. Councillor Mark Roberts.

Beanie Feldstein who fits the role of a young, naïve, and wide-eyed local politician oblivious to the corruption around her. Councillor Rachel Bresnahan.

LibDem MP Lisa Smart would have to be Glenn Close.

Democratic Services – kind, principled people. How council officers should act.

Julia Roberts and John Krasinski

Approachable demeanour and warm expression, qualities that would suit a “decent local council officer” character.

Vicki Bates, Monitoring Officer – No idea who would play her.

Michael Cullen, Chief Executive. A character like Elizabeth, Captain Mainwaring’s wife, who never appears. No actor needed. He takes no part in the story – a bit like real life.

Liz Sykes, who apparently gets all of a dither at the mention of Padden Brook. Thelma Barlow? Mavis in Coronation Street.

Finally me. An old lady who muddles along and wins in the end. I suggest someone like Margaret Rutherford.



A Thick Sod. And LibDem Councillor Angela Clark.

Environmental vandalism, Exasperated residents, Information Commissioner, LibDem Councillors, Padden Brook, Town Hall Protester, Vale View School Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Sat, August 09, 2025 03:26

I don’t think this thick sod is indigenous to this part of Romiley. Did LibDem councillor, Angela Clark, import it from another area to facilitate this photo op? I think we should be told.

“That would essentially be staging or misrepresentation — a manufactured scene meant to give the impression of an action or event that didn’t actually happen.

In everyday terms, it could be called:

  • A photo op stunt – setting up an image for publicity rather than documenting reality.
  • Deception – because it’s presenting the sod of grass as if it came from that site.
  • Astroturfing (ironically!) – though the political term usually means faking grassroots support, here it’s literally faking grass.
  • Symbolic theatre – using props to tell a story rather than showing the real situation.

If it’s in the context of politics, the ethics would hinge on whether the audience is being deliberately misled for political gain. In journalism or official council communications, that would cross into falsifying evidence territory.

Type of ManipulationDescription & Example
Staged Photo OpSetting up scenes (e.g., fake sod) to create a misleading visual narrative

She couldn’t have cared less about the fate of sick, innocent Mr Parnell RIP.

She doesn’t act in line with her legal councillor responsibilities when a fraud of £6m at 2009 prices was brought to her attention.

Lisa Smart and Angela Clark – not fit to hold public office.

And her lies about Padden Brook having been improved/tidied up take my breath away.
The LibDem Nincompoops at Stockport Council Claim This Local Wildlife Site Has Been Improved/Tidied UP.


Sod-gate

Environmental vandalism, Exasperated residents, LibDem Councillors, Lisa Smart LibDem MP Posted by Sheila OliverPosted on Fri, August 08, 2025 17:57

My clever husband has pointed out that this dim LibDem Councillor must have brought this sod of grass to pretend to have dug it up, as there is no grass anywhere near that area. Sod-gate. It’s the cover-ups that bring them down. Watch this space.



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