When the Stockport LibDem councillors decided to develop a
recreation ground, as I understand it they should have consulted the public and
held a public inquiry if there were any objections under the Acquisition of
Land Act 1981. Obviously, they did
nothing of the sort and every time I tried to raise the matter I was branded
“vexatious”, and I still am.
This is how they treated recreation grounds they destroyed to
build their bypass for votes (fourth row down on the right), with a newspaper announcement
of their plans and the right to object.
No such protection for a recreation ground Stockport Council wanted to develop for the school.
The Stockport Council assistant monitoring officer Michelle
Dodds and Vicki Bates, Strategic Head of Service
& Monitoring Officer (Legal, Democratic Governance and
Estate and Asset Management), say I am vexatious to have ever raised this
issue. Ms Dodds and Ms Bates obviously
care nothing for children’s safety.
The Stockport then-entirely LibDem Executive decided
to build the new 500 pupil, still gassing toxic waste dump school at this
location where traffic was already horrendous:
Most of the cars from the houses within the red lines on the photo below, which have to exit their housing estate along narrow Mill Lane past the new, still gassing toxic waste dump primary school, were ignored at the planning meeting. What about the traffic from all these houses I asked and asked? Don’t be vexatious they replied, and they still do – Ms Dodds and Ms Bates, Stockport Council panjandrums.
Within weeks of the new school opening the police had complained about the dangerous traffic situation, which I had previously warned the Council about:
The school was issuing
letters to parents and residents about the dangerous traffic situation, but
still my questions on the subject were and still are “vexatious”.
It would be bad enough that Ms Dodds and Ms
Bates, Monitoring Officers, don’t care about children’s safety enough to allow
questions to be asked about the traffic situation, but my young son died in a
traffic accident aged just 16. For these
women to call a mother who lost her child in a traffic accident “vexatious” for
correctly identifying the dangers to primary school children is so offensive to
me as to be off the scale.
