Stockport Council News

Drazen Jaksic
Chief Executive
Zurich Insurance UK
Head Office
70 Mark Lane
London
EC3R 7NQ

Thursday, 09 January 2025

Dear Drazen Jaksic

Insurers of Stockport Council

Please listen to what I am saying.  Many years ago Stockport Council, ruled almost entirely by the LibDems, put a new primary school on a still gassing toxic waste dump – a former Jackson’s Brickyard – which you may know had appalling contamination histories.  The council refused three planning applications in the 1970s because the site was too toxic to build on.  It was decided to put a new primary school on that site, although there was another, more popular, safer site available with room for expansion.  The LibDem councillors chose to sell that off for housing and use the toxic site instead, which they tried to pretend was clean.  There was more planning corruption/fraud involved than you could shake a stick at, which is all clearly documented here:-

https://www.sheilaoliver.org/toxic-waste-dump-school-.html

When I started exposing their planning corruption they had to shut me up, so they told the Information Commissioner that I was vexatious.  I had to try for years to get them to remove the contamination, which they did after a fashion, but the brown asbestos fibres were left on the site.  There are reference points on the video proving this is that site:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0rCPnP5H9o

The school opened in 2011.  Mesothelioma cases, as I understand it, usually take 25 years to develop.  Apart from the school children, the area is very built up.  The brown asbestos fibres they disturbed will have travelled.  When I pointed out migrant labour was removing lethal brown asbestos fibres using a bin bag and stick and that they didn’t understand their task as they took their own respirators off, I was told I was vexatious.  I have the documentary evidence.

When I gave evidence to the Information Commissioner subsequently that I had been correct in every respect, they refused to remove the vexatious branding.

So, I assume you may face potentially huge mesothelioma claims in the future.  I think the insurers of the LibDems and the Information Commissioner will have to pay towards any settlements.  I couldn’t go to the police about the corruption because of the close connection between Greater Manchester Police and Stockport Council, which is shown in the second case of corruption, which might also leave you with huge damages claims.

https://www.sheilaoliver.org/mr-parnell-rip.html

This paedophile –

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/former-stockport-councillor-facing-10-10723666

Lord Goddard and the Stockport LibDem councillors repeatedly/maliciously imprisoned this sick, innocent, fiercely protective father of 2 lovely young girls until he died aged 58.  The same people as were involved with the toxic waste dump primary school.  Two of them, Wendy Meikle and Shan Alexander are still Executive Councillors even today.  What on earth may they be currently up to?  Mr Parnell’s and his family’s life were destroyed, all because he tried to protect his adopted daughters from the above paedophile.  I begged every LibDem Lord, MP, senior official every day to stop what was being done to him.  I said they were kicking him into his grave, which they were.  Not a single response was received from anyone.

My suggestions going forward? Have some sort of contact point for people undergoing these abuses which might leave local authority insurers with huge claims in the future.  Nip the abuses in the bud when they start.  It wouldn’t cost much to set up or run, and the potential savings for your industry could be huge.

There is, of course, the case of Mrs Luba Macpherson and Sunderland Council.  No-one did their job.  No-one listened to a concerned mother worried about her daughter.  How much might that claim cost your industry?

I shall cc this to the rogues at Stockport Council.  If they wish to dispute matters they can, but I have a very large amount of documentary evidence

I hope you listen; I really do

Yours sincerely

Sheila Oliver
Local Authority Specialist Researcher
Citizens 2022 Committee

c.c. Mr John Edwards
Information Commissioner
Wycliffe House
Wilmslow
Cheshire

c.c LibDems
Stockport Council

c.c. Edward Davey
LibDem Leader

Text of a letter sent by a local resident to this week’s Stockport Express:-

“Thank you, Stockport Express, for revealing the latest twist in the saga of North Reddish School. Local esidents were appalled in September when we discovered that the school had been sold by Stockport Council at a knock-down price of £205k to a group of Birmingham businessmen.

Is this state of affairs incompetence on the part of Stockport Council or naivety due to the bubble of secrecy they like to operate in? Perhaps Executive Councillor Mark Weldon, Barry Khan, the director of finance and Murray Carr, the head of property services should all go back to school. I understand that Stockport Council has sold another building to the same group of businessmen. Now I wonder that that went for.”

My addition comment to this excellent letter is that Excecutive Councillor Mark Weldon, Council Soliticitor Barry Khan were both involved with a multi million pound offence under the Fraud Act 2006 in deliberately building the Vale View School too small deliberately causing a large loss to the council taxpayers, which is an illegal act.

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/not-big-enough-one-year-on.html

http://www.sheilaoliver.org/financial-irregularities.html

http://andrewgwynne.co.uk/2013/11/22/questions-need-answering-on-sale-of-north-reddish-junior-infants-school/

FOI 7842

25 October 2013 08:35

Dear Mrs Oliver,

I am writing in response to your request for information (ref FOI 7842).

The relevant Council Service(s) has searched for the requested information and our response is as follows.

A sale board was not erected as it was considered that this would be of limited benefit given the location of the building and the possibility that it may attract unwarranted attention as it would indicate that the building was vacant.

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05 October 2013 18:03
Dear FoI Officer

Were for sale signs placed at North Reddish School? If so, where and when?

Many thanks

Sheila

The people who have allegedly bought North Reddish School are based here in Birmingham

It is alleged their names are:-
Amjad Hussain
Saleem Akhtar
Mohammed Rashid
Arshad Mahmood

and it is believed they paid £205,000 for it.

This is what Councillor Kate Butler said she was told by the new owner:-

“NORTH REDDISH SCHOOL UPDATE. I’ve just got off the phone to Mr Hussain, one of new owners of the school.

1. He fully appreciates the significance of the war memorial and – get this – his grandfather was decorated for his service to this country in the First World War.
2. He’s a businessman and wouldn’t be so daft as to damage such a stunning feature of the building.
3. It would be illegal anyway as the memorial is protected by law.

I hope this puts your minds at rest as far as the ware memorial is concerned.

As far as what the new owners intend to do with the school, there was never any intention of turning it into a mosque as, in Mr Hussain’s words “we’re businessmen and there’s no money in running a mosque”. They have identified a need in the general Stockport/Tameside area for a special needs school for children and they are currently looking for a partner who specialises in this kind of thing to turn their investment in the school into a viable business proposition.

Again, to quote Mr Hussain – “We fully intend to preserve the school and its beautiful original features”.

So, that’s the very latest info we have. I should add that we’re as disappointed as everyone else that the council hasn’t been more transparent about what’s happening. I guess to them it’s just a simple commercial transaction but it’s really frustrating for us when they don’t recognise how strong people’s feelings can be about such a significant local landmark.

If anyone wants to get in touch with me my email is cllr.kate.butler@stockport.gov.uk or you can give me a ring on 431 5536.

Cheers
Kate”

No-one ever saw a for sale sign up. So why not?

Email received from Andrew Gwynne MP 13th September 2012 at 20.20

“Sheila

I fully appreciate the potential issues. The problem is another educational use would not require planning permission as it is the previous use of the building.

I think we need to see precisely what options the owners come up with. Cllr Butler has posted on my Facebook page tonight the owner is possibly looking at some form of special school provision, but I have no other information than that at this stage.

Once I get more clarification of details I will see what options are available to the local community.

Bluntly, SMBC should not have sold the building on without thinking about the possible consequences for the locality, but this is just path of the course with this Council I’m afraid. They didn’t even consult with me. But, hey, I’m only the Member of Parliament!

I will do what I can to support local residents. Let’s see what further details the owners come up with.

Andrew”