Is the Council trying to runaway from its liability?

Is the Council trying to runaway from its liability
23rd June 2017

The Council have been asked if its intention is to commit fraud this week and its reaction is to try to dispose of the land that this alleged fraud surrounds.


The Council has been notified of this fraud in its planning matter HS/DS/1700194.

http://publicaccess.hastings.gov.uk/online-applications/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=summary&keyVal=_HSTBC_DCAPR_104541

It is also failing to put material on this site. Please object to this
 
The initial Registration of this land has been a subject of a complaint with Land Registry for over a month it is quite apparant that the 38 acres of land with a 1000 year lease has not expreed and the Councils First registration was flawed. The Inviestigation bodies are still investigating the matter . Is the Councils action consistant to an admition of this fraud? http://www.hastings.gov.uk/my_council/transparency/public/ The web site talks about transparancy. we can see no transparancy here when its own leader of the council used Speckled Wood to manover his seat in Ore.

Is this the kind of actions you expect from your Council A spokesman for the Friends of Speckled Wood Managment Trust said " This is disgraceful".

Planning Application on Church Street

Friends fight back to Save their Woodland
5th April 2017
The Friends of Speckled Wood Managment Trust Chairman has sent in 1.5kg of objection to the new reserved matters planning to put five  houses on Church Street again on top of the badger sett. This application was halted last month and the wildlife groups all believe it is the first phase to develop Speckled Wood, Hastings as the Council has nothing to register the land of Speckled Wood as they promised they would.

The Badger Society and Friends of Speckled Wood Managment Trust are keen to stop this from happening as it could be the start of real problems on other sites turning our town into a concrete jungle.

The Chairman of Friends of Speckled Wood Managment Trust said: "This is outrageous.". He also said that he will initiate a new consultation form on the friends' website to help the public submit their objection to this new threat on this woodland. The New form is now live on the internet as he promised here: http://www.friendsofspeckledwoodmanagementtrust.org.uk/consultation/

The Hastings Badger Protection Society Ltd also pledged their support stating "That they are absolutely disgusted."

Picture courtesy google images and Care2 Petitions.

The Planning Application at Church Street has been withdrawn

The Planning Application at Church Street  has been withdrawn
27th February 2017
Planning on Church Street has been withdrawn by the Applicant according to a notice placed on the Planning Application HS/FA/16/01013 | Development of site to provide 5 dwellings. |  Land at Church Street, Church Street, Hastings, TN35 5AQ. The exact words on the application front page were "Decision Withdrawn by Applicant" and this was dated Mon 27 Feb 2017. The Chairman of Friends of Speckled Wood has been working with Land Registry to obtain information on Land Ownership. Talks are on going.

Land at Church Street

Public Land at Church Street
14/12/2016

 It is known that the Council registered HT19042  in 1962 with an Application Form and document for induced registration. This was later transferred to Homes and Communities  in 2003. The red area is the area which is believed to be a village green and had been used up and to recently without let or hindrance for more than 40 years.

Council provided evidence in Freedom of Information Request that it didn't register your consultation for the Local Plan

Council provided evidence in Freedom of Information Request that it didn’t register your consultation for the Local Plan
14th December 2016

Hastings Borough Council responded on the WhatDoTheyKnow website yesterday that it had no consultation responses for CV04 the land at Church Street, which was public land and had been used without let or hindrance for more than forty years. The document clearly shows in our opinion that the Consultation was rigged  by an unknown individual to remove traces of CV04. The consultations these figures come from are the Consultation on the Inspectors Preliminary Findings. The Council has until Friday to address this before the matter goes the ICO. Please click on the image to expand it. The original request is here: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/can_you_please_provide_me_detail?nocache=incoming-909142#incoming-909142

Development starts in Speckled Wood.

Development starts in Speckled Wood.
17 November 2016

A fencing truck arrived today along Church Street and has put up metal fencing rails in Church Street Speckled Wood. The Council has been contacted and has no knowledge of this and have referred the matter to enforcement team. Clearly this is what we expected would happen as the Council do not seem to be honoring the promises made by Councilor Peter Chowney in his election paperwork.

Secretary of State writes to Chief Lord Justice Lord Thomas

Secretary of State writes to Chief Lord Justice Lord Thomas
22nd August 2016

The Charity received a wonderful letter in the post today stating that our MP Amber Rudd, The Secretary of State has written to Lord Thomas the Chief Lord Justice in regard to  the missing underpinning documents from the Hastings Development Plan. These should have been legally available after the Consultation for the Main Modifications. It is known that Rothers’ Examination Report is correct and was written by the Planning Inspector. Hastings Borough Council document was written by someone in the Council at the time. The Charity has been concerned that the lack of the underpinning Examination Report makes the Development Plan Unsound. This is concerning as the Borough makes Green Space areas which the Council state are protected. It also questions why this process failed and why the Inspector does not seem to have supplied Hastings with an Examination Report when it has supplied one for Rother District Council.

The Charity have been working for over two and a half years to get a Legal Decision from the Freedom of Information Act  2000, The Information Commissioner , Three First Tier Tribunal Service  GRP & GRS Tribunal , The Judicial Appointments and Conduct Ombudsman and now the Chief Lord Justice. A spiral bound report has been prepared by the Hastings Badger Protection Society Directors and Friends of Speckled Wood Management Trust to ensure this matter is properly dealt with. The Charity has been fighting to save Speckled Wood since 2012. The Charity was set up when other groups would not provide an electronic consultation for the public. Over 7000 Reponses were sent in to the Council from the Charity in an attempt to Save Speckled Wood.  The Charity used skips to remove dangerous rusting metal work and rubbish from the site over two years in 2013 in an attempt to clean the area up for the children who play there.

More information about the Charity is here:
http://www.charitychoice.co.uk/friends-of-speckled-wood-management-trust

Friends of Speckled Wood Management Trust & HBPS raise concerns with Lord Atkin and the Home Secretary

Friends of Speckled Wood Management Trust & HBPS raise concerns with Lord Atkin and the Home 
Secretary13 August 2016

The meeting was very successful and a lot of information was shared with Lord Atkin and the Home Secretary. The Home Secretary Amber Rudd MP agreed that she would help and an action plan has been established. The Charity is hoping to hear back from this in a few weeks to see what their next course of action is going to be. The matter is hopeing to Save Speckled Wood as the Charity has been fighting to Save this area for the Wildlife and Children that use this area  since 2012.

Judicial Appointments & Conduct Ombudsman will investigate

Judicial Appointments & Conduct Ombudsman will investigate.
4th August 2016
The Judicial Appointments & Conduct Ombudsman confirmed by telephone  today that it will investigate the Chamber President in regard to the decision that his office was investigating with the missing Planning Inspectors Report which was requested from the Council two and a half years ago and has still not been forthcoming .

The matter reached the First Tier Tribunal GRC & GRP Tribunal in January this year after a complaint was made to the ICO in regard to the Council holding or not holding this document from the Planning Inspectorate.  A twenty page report was sent to JACO the Communities and Local Government  Comittiee. and Ms Amber Rudd MP

"This was excellant news the chairman states as it was very kind of JACO to step in and help."

Mr Donald Wise of Hastings Badger Protection Society stated " I am totally ashamed that the Council has not produced what everyone was expecting to see."

Speckled Wood Designation

Speckled Wood Designation

25th July 2016

Speckled Wood  is Currently Designation by Natural England: Priority Habitat Inventory - Deciduous Woodland (England), Woodland Improvement (England), National Forest Inventory (GB).