Oh, the irony....

[josharb87]

This popped into my mind reading the screenshots! 

 

 

[skyhuck]

19 minutes ago, josharb87 said:

This popped into my mind reading the screenshots! 

 

 

Hehe, that never gets old!!

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

1 hour ago, josharb87 said:

This popped into my mind reading the screenshots! 

 

 

Haven’t seen that before! Brilliant (and spookily similar to some of my LA interactions....)

[Gary Prentice]

2 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

Especially given the post discussion summary received by email!

 

”Solved” Well that’s a new definition of “Solved!”

 

 

Solved=LA speak for ‘someone’s else’s problem’

Edited April 30, 2018 by Gary Prentice

[Inoff the Red]

Kevin,

Well done for challenging this, unless/until more people do the same nothing will change.

 

If you think its bad down your way , you should come up north a bit.

In the Peoples Socialist Republic of Nottingham, the local authority is really imaginative in extracting money from tax/ratepayers.

They introduced a work place parking levy whereby all employers with more than 10 employees has to pay £400 per parking space available to employees. I know of a firm that leased parking spaces from the council in one of their multi-storey car parks who also had to pay the parking levy on those spaces.

It came as a surprise to the council when businesses started relocating. One major company who's site straddled the city council boundary moved their car park a few hundred yards to be outside the city boundary much to the councils outrage.

 

Recently the council has introduced a charge for any private landlord letting property in the city. Each licence costs a few hundred quid and will need to be renewed every 2 years...and the council expects landlords not to pass the costs on to tenants. 

 

 

As for dealing with the pillocks at Data Protection, I received a really nasty letter because I was late with my annual fee. I paid, and asked them to confirm it would be ok for me to sell personal info about clients/suppliers/employees etc providing I sanitised the info to remove names and addresses. The response was instant and threatening. I asked them to explain the difference with what I proposed and what the NHS was doing.....the silence was deafening.

 

...and dont get me started on the scoundrels at the PRS.....my metamorphosis into Victor Meldrew is almost complete

Edited April 30, 2018 by Inoff the Red

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

1 hour ago, Inoff the Red said:

Kevin,

Well done for challenging this, unless/until more people do the same nothing will change.

 

If you think its bad down your way , you should come up north a bit.

In the Peoples Socialist Republic of Nottingham, the local authority is really imaginative in extracting money from tax/ratepayers.

They introduced a work place parking levy whereby all employers with more than 10 employees has to pay £400 per parking space available to employees. I know of a firm that leased parking spaces from the council in one of their multi-storey car parks who also had to pay the parking levy on those spaces.

It came as a surprise to the council when businesses started relocating. One major company who's site straddled the city council boundary moved their car park a few hundred yards to be outside the city boundary much to the councils outrage.

 

Recently the council has introduced a charge for any private landlord letting property in the city. Each licence costs a few hundred quid and will need to be renewed every 2 years...and the council expects landlords not to pass the costs on to tenants. 

 

 

As for dealing with the pillocks at Data Protection, I received a really nasty letter because I was late with my annual fee. I paid, and asked them to confirm it would be ok for me to sell personal info about clients/suppliers/employees etc providing I sanitised the info to remove names and addresses. The response was instant and threatening. I asked them to explain the difference with what I proposed and what the NHS was doing.....the silence was deafening.

 

...and dont get me started on the scoundrels at the PRS.....my metamorphosis into Victor Meldrew is almost complete

I don't go Norf of the river (Tamar) Gov'nor....  (well, only very rarely and for special occasions!)

 

Scandalous LA behaviour starting to emerge in Nottingham....

 

Could there possibly be a connection....?

 

http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/DMS/Document.ashx?czJKcaeAi5tUFL1DTL2UE4zNRBcoShgo=j0gU%2BCxsgJFDfZgiA7wNt8Wcd%2BCsdVhw1WRm77tka44OAEJ%2F4VnXEQ%3D%3D&rUzwRPf%2BZ3zd4E7Ikn8Lyw%3D%3D=pwRE6AGJFLDNlh225F5QMaQWCtPHwdhUfCZ%2FLUQzgA2uL5jNRG4jdQ%3D%3D&mCTIbCubSFfXsDGW9IXnlg%3D%3D=hFflUdN3100%3D&kCx1AnS9%2FpWZQ40DXFvdEw%3D%3D=hFflUdN3100%3D&uJovDxwdjMPoYv%2BAJvYtyA%3D%3D=ctNJFf55vVA%3D&FgPlIEJYlotS%2BYGoBi5olA%3D%3D=NHdURQburHA%3D&d9Qjj0ag1Pd993jsyOJqFvmyB7X0CSQK=ctNJFf55vVA%3D&WGewmoAfeNR9xqBux0r1Q8Za60lavYmz=ctNJFf55vVA%3D&WGewmoAfeNQ16B2MHuCpMRKZMwaG1PaO=ctNJFf55vVA%3D

 

If you get so far as reading the link....  The first blatant, corporate speak BS appears in the Exec summary "...Today CORMAC is one of the most highly-regarded, trusted and well-known companies in the South West. We are committed to delivering cost-effective and innovative solutions which add value to our communities, clients, partners and people..."  If he honestly thinks that is true, he's never listened to Radio Cornwall phone in show in the afternoon and he's never had a social media account!

 

It also fails to mention in the Exec summary that all of the staff (and inherent idleness and inefficiency of public sector), all of the plant & machinery,  all the habitual bad practice transferred direct from CC to Cormac by way of a 5 year loan arrangement on the notional value of equipment transferred, a profit share and RoFR on all CC highways and maintenance works....  Oh, one more thing it forgot to mention, Cormac is 100% share owned by Cornwall council.  By any other name - a cartel.

Edited April 30, 2018 by kevinjohnsonmbe

[Inoff the Red]

5 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

I don't go Norf of the river (Tamar) Gov'nor....  (well, only very rarely and for special occasions!)

 

 

Don't blame you, I try and get South of the Tamar as often as possible (and keep a small boat in the shadow of Mount Edgecumbe).

 

Is the Man Engine still doing the rounds of Cornish towns and villages?

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Yes, I’m sure it is still doing the rounds! We went to Minions to see it first time round. The tiny lanes were choked for miles around, had to escape across the moors!

 

Edgecome, Rame peninsula, Kingsand, , Cawsand, Whitsand etc, still all relatively undiscovered gems (although Rame Conservation Trust experiencing some difficulties with development at the moment)

[Inoff the Red]

6 hours ago, kevinjohnsonmbe said:

 

 

Edgecome, Rame peninsula, Kingsand, , Cawsand, Whitsand etc, still all relatively undiscovered gems (although Rame Conservation Trust experiencing some difficulties with development at the moment)

I was down a couple of weeks ago for week end of pressure washing and antifouling and noticed some signs campaigning to save a pub in Cawsand/Kingsand presumably to stop conversion to residential. There is always a risk in places like that properties are taken over as holiday homes becoming ghost towns out of season with the consequent closure of local businesses which no longer have a local population to serve which causes pubs to shut and so the cycle continues.

[Baldbloke]

By law any public body has to supply an answer to a Freedom of Information request within a certain time period. They are duty bound to tell you how much money was used for their mail shot.
I recently asked our local council how much their retrospective works costs after they fucked up by granting planning permission after my objections were ignored. It involved engineering works to cut into a bank, move a Hydro electric pole, and take the brow off an A road. 68k.
It still doesn’t comply, but they know I’ll go to the papers to release those details if they ignore me again[emoji12]
I loathe our council.