Blackstone, no proper details of meetings, toxic land, is the decision making meeting to be held in secret?

Dear Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council,

I previously asked about the, I assume, multi million pound
development at the Blackstone site in Offerton. When you supplied
the information there was virtually no information of the outcome
of any meetings for this entire project - see links below.

I believe the matter is to be decided at the Executive Meeting on
the 9th of January when both the public and press will be excluded.
Could you please let me know why this decision to exclude the press
and public was made if it is indeed the case? If this is the case,
it appears the entire development has been a virtually secret one -
like the toxic waste dump school. This is a LibDem council and
ostensibly the LibDems believe in open and transparent government.

http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/co...
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/bl...

In addition, you posted me the contamination reports of June and
August 2011, incurring £4.41 postage (I would always collect
anything from the town hall to save postage as I have told you
previously) and photocoping a massive report when you could have
just sent me the link. I suspect this might have been so the report
showing the land is seriously contaminated with 78% methane and
over 33% CO2 amongst other things wouldn't be in the public domain.
I don't know otherwise why you would have posted the documents
instead of pointing me to a link. Please let me have a link to the
Blackstone contamination documents from June 2011 and August 2011.

It might be easier, given that we are having such problems with
what is going on at Stockport and planning, to simply put all
documents regarding important projects up on the Internet for
interested parties to read. Then we would have transparency in
planning, which we desperately need in this town

Again, in respect of this huge project, I have been able to find
virtually nothing about what has gone on. This can't be right and
the Council must change the way it operates to be seen as open and
accountable.

Yours faithfully,

Sheila Oliver

Dear Not Ms Naven

It is completely ludicrous in this day and age that complicated
contamination reports from June and August 2011 are only held in
paper form. I smell yet another council rat!

We must clean up this council; we really must.

Yours sincerely,

Sheila Oliver