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A valid point.  If a child has had a serious accident within days of the school opening, does the playground meet the required safety standards?  (Nothing else does).


My account with the What Do They Know website was suspended because with his full permission I posted up details of the Town Hall Protester.  I did this in a desperate attempt to prevent them repeatedly sending this completely innocent man to prison. They were driving him to suicide as they played their part in doing with other Stockport people - Andrea Adams who jumped from a tower block aged 18 and Alison Davies who jumped from the Humber Bridge with her young autistic 9 year old son Ryan. I make no apologies for trying to save a life and trying to stop appalling human rights abuses by this council.

Please see the Town Hall Protester page of this website. This page is still under construction.


The Council has never in the past monitored the gas/contamination on this known landfill site.



Circa 30 pupils had left before the first half term of this school's existence.  The three schools this school replaced were all excellent.  It seems they have amalgamated three excellent schools into one which is rubbish and which both staff and pupils detest.

If this is the case, I don't think it is "vexatious" to ask questions about it.  I foretold this would happen.



They rushed to finish this school in a ridiculously short time (circa 6 months).  You will cut corners if you have to rush, I said, and corners can't be cut regarding the contamination. Don't be "vexatious", they replied. And, they still do.



"SBC have confirmed that there are no Design Change Order Logs relating to the ValeView school.This is most UNUSUAL on a multi million pound contract. So,it would appear the Contractor (BAM) can make any changes on a whim".




"Item 6b 3.1 - the area has apparently increased from 2600m2 to
3185m2 and this is to cost an extra £1,050,000.

Item 6b 3.2 the cost per metre 2 is put at £1450.

3185 - 2600 = 585m2 @ £1450 = £848,250 and not £1,050,000.

In accordance with the Council's own Fraud and Financial
Irregularity policy (and councils have to comply with their own
policies) when this apparent, large, financial irregularity was
brought to the attention of the Executive Councillors, the Chief
Executive, the Council Solicitor, the FOI Officer and the Director
of Finance, and I drew it to the attention of all of them, action
had to be taken.

Please let me know what action was taken."

"Vexatious",  I thought there was a Council policy for reporting Fraud and Financial Irregularities.  Apparently not!




"Screening works for asbestos containing material has been proven to be sufficient...demonstrating there has been a reduction inthe asbestos content of site won soils"

That was done by the two bored blokes with a stick and a bin bag (please see the You Tube clip on this site) , one of whom even takes his own respirator off, so has no understanding of the serious nature of his task. A builder walked by unprotected.




"I am V surprised the Vale View school managed to obtain a Public Liability Insurance Certificate because they do NOT hold any Building Completion Certificate or Fire Certificates or any Air Permeability Test results.  They do not hold any Soil Resistivity Test results either which are normally obtained PRE CONSTRUCTION.

I must say the headteacher at this school is a WONDER WOMAN having to deal with the design,construction and operations of this school,plus all the Risk Assesments etc and the FOI challenges.  I really admire her because how she fits in ALL this responsibility AND teaching duties AS WELL."



"Dear Stockport Borough Council,

Can you please provide me with information relating to the
safeguards of Methane Gas Monitors (MGM) for Vale View School site.

1.What type of monitors used
2.What type of alarms
3.Whose remit for 1&2.
4.How are MGM records stored and where.

Could you also provide via this FOI Request the history of the
former Vale View Landfill site, who used it, what materials were
tipped there, safeguads etc."

Request long, long overdue.





"Dear Stockport Borough Council,

Can you please provide me relevant documentation for the safeguarding of local waterways and ECO SYSTEM adjacent to the ValeView school for the prevention of LEACHATE leaking into the Eco System.
For your information, Leachate is the liquid produced in a landfill sites. As the acids from decaying waste react with other rubbish, the leachate can become toxic. To prevent leachate contaminating nearby streams, it is collected and disposed of at a waste watertreatment plant.

Please provide the relevant documenation the LEACHATE safeguarding has been provided at the Vale View school."




More worries about how this entire project has been handled.  It is not possible to have confidence in any of the "experts" involved because the initially said the site was completely safe and that children could  be protected from toxic hotspots by means of prickly bushes!!

They should have been immediately removed from any further work on this school but, of course, they weren't.



Local people were cheated as well by what has been done regarding this footpath.  This means if they have furniture delivered it has to be carried maybe a quarter of a mile and an ambulance crew was unable to reach a lady in her late eighties who had collapsed.



After creating the mother of all dangerous traffic problems for the primary school children, they try to take away the lollipop crossing lady.  LibDems - heartless!



More failure to comply with standard practice. Why have we paid such a lot for this school including exorbitant property charges to NPS Stockport if it is such a dog's dinner?


More danger to local residents. The Fire Service won't be able to have access. Still, what does Stockport Council care about anything?


SMBC fails to hold records in a correct manner as stipulated by the Information Commission and then claims it would take almost three weeks of an officer working full time to assemble and remove all the secrets from the files on one primary school.  If Stockport held proper records, such ludicrous and frankly unbelievable situations would not arise.


Me branded "vexatious" again for trying to stick up for the rights of local residents exactly what the local councillors should be doing.


More financial shenanigans. They sent me the contract - they were forced to - but with important financial sections missing.



If they applied the correct financial management progamme, why was the entire project such a dog's dinner with regards to the costs?



This Supreme Court ruling means that local councils are automatically liable for any case of asbestosis or mesothelioma contracted in schools. So, with hundreds of children on that site every year, not to mention the teachers and ancilliary staff, they entire Borough is likely to be bankrupted in the future by these  secretive LibDems and senior council officers.

The costs of asbestos claims have bankrupted huge American corporations in the past.  I have to question, not for the first time, whether any of those involved with this project are suitable people to hold public office?



I need to keep an eye  on when this large amount of land is sold, who the selling agent are, how much it is sold for.

I don't know why the toxic waste dump school couldn't have gone on this safe site, with no toxic waste,  no traffic problems, no need for extra charges for installing electricity, water, gas telephone etc, no drainage problems, no compulsory purchase problems, where many parents wanted it to go.

It will be interesting to see whether GVA  Grimley is involved with the sale - the chaps who wanted political pressure put on the planning committee to get the school on the toxic waste dump, thus freeing up lots of land for development.


Will the Council's insurers cover this toxic timebomb school?  I am "vexatious" for even asking that question.



Within a year of the new school opening, they are talking about re-opening the old one a few yards away.  How can they not have known that the toxic waste dump school wasn't big enough? Why did they brand me as vexatious for even raising this matter with proof?

Goddard, Schulz, Derbyshire, Khan, Bodsworth, Re, Boylan, Pantall, Roberts, Candler, Smith, White et al?





As of 13/06/12 Stockport Council still says I am vexatious for asking questions about this school.

On 13/06/12 I telephoned the secretary of the Leader of Stockport Council, Councillor Derbyshire, to tell her the Council should write to both the What Do They Know website and the Information Commissioner to set the record straight - that they lied about my being vexatious.

I shall keep you posted if I ever receive a reply.

LibDems, eh!  Never trust them.



"Furious governors are demanding to know why their £8m super-school is still unfinished a term after opening.

The governing body of Vale View primary school in Reddish has written to the Council with a catalogue of 'serious concerns'.

Governors at the state-of-the art 550 pupil school - which opened in September - have called the situation 'unacceptable'.Last month the school was evacuated after a ceiling to an office collapsed. Governors now say fixtures and fittings keep falling off and IT equipment has not been correctly installed.They complain workmen are still on site nearly six months after opening and slam 'a multitude of outstanding items not completed'. Their letter says: "When can we expect an end to this situation? We have been patient, tolerant, understanding and accommodating so far, and appreciate all the hard work so many people have put into getting our school up and running, but the situation is now becoming not only untenable, but simply unacceptable."

At their latest meeting the board of governors resolved to write to the town hall and did so shortly before Christmas.They complain windowsills and door stoppers keep dropping off, there are no play-ground markings, boxes of computers are still not unpacked or installed, and the ventilation shafts do not work. Health and safety problems are raised around the intallation of
multimedia whiteboards and IT equipment is slammed as 'inadequate and insufficient'. The letter adds: "Weekly neetings between staff here and the contractors to update on what is happening are now becoming entirely non-productive."

Coun Stuart Bodsworth, executive member for children and young people, said: "The new school provides an exellent education facility which benefits the Reddish community. "We are aware there are some issues needing further work at the
building. "However, it is common for some works to continue during a 12-month period following completion of any building work. As part of their contract the builders are workingwith the school to ensure this work is undertaken at times which are most convenient to the school."

My account with the What Do They Know website was suspended because with his full permission I posted up details of the Town Hall Protester. I did this in a desperate attempt to prevent them repeatedly sending this completely innocent man to prison. They were driving him to suicide as they played their part in doing with other Stockport people - Andrea Adams who jumped from a tower block aged 18 and Alison Davies who jumped from the Humber Bridge with her young autistic 9 year old son Ryan. I make no apologies for trying to save a life and trying to stop appalling human rights abuses by this council.

Please see the Town Hall Protester page of this website. This page is still under construction.




 
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