Stockport Council says every approach I make to the Council must be through the FOI Officer

Dear Stockport Borough Council,

I know this is not a FOI request but the Council has made up the
rule that I can only contact the Council through the FOI Officer (I
think so no-one inadvertently tells me an inconvenient truth).

Please ask Councillor Weldon, Donna Sager and Andrew Webb to meet
me at the site of the proposed school at 08.45 on a school day, so
I can explain the already dangerous traffic situation there even
before the 550 pupil school and nursery,midwifery drop in sessions,
baby clinic/group, health visitor drop in sessions, speech and
language support for children, childminder network and drop in
facility with access to training, creche, parents/carers'
attendance sessions, parents/carers' support base offering
parenting courses and Family Learning Support, parent and child
play sessions and information sessions on childcare, jobs and
benefits are in operation.

The Chief Highways Engineer, Nick Whelan, stated in an email 3 days
before the planning decision meeting that the drop off facility was
not big enough and proposed a Grampian condition turning circle as
the solution. As the Council failed to include the turning circle
land in the compulsory purchase order to alleviate the need for a
public inquiry (although one should have been held anyway because
the Council was fraudulently taking part of someone's garden), it
will be years, if it is passed at all, before the turning circle
could be operational.

So, when the first child dies in a traffic accident, I will be able
to show this posting to the lawyers represting the grieving parents
(and I am one myself) and sue the above mentioned Councillor
Weldon, Donna Sager and Andrew Webb for corporate manslaughter.

I look forward to your reply and their site visit.

With warmest best wishes

Yours faithfully,

Sheila Oliver
Freedom of Information, Environmental and Human Rights Campaigner

Dear Stockport Borough Council,

I have requested that Councillor Weldon and Andrew Webb, the people
responsible, have a site visit to the proposed school and see how
dangerous the traffic situation is and how their plans to deal with
this cannot be implemented for several years due to the Council's
failure to include all the land needed in the compulsory purchase
order to bypass the need for a public inquiry into the loss of
public open space. The situation they are creating is so dangerous
that children will die.

They won't answer any council meeting questions on the issue and
despite the Information Commission saying they should, they won't
answer any FOI questions either.

I have been told by the Council to make all contact via the FOI
Officer, which is what I am trying to do.

Kind regards

Yours faithfully,

Sheila Oliver

Dear Ms Naven

It is impossible to contact the Council any other way - no
questions are accepted in council meetings and no ordinary emails
are responded to on this subject, so there is no other way forward.
This is what I have been told to do by the Council - make all
contact via the FOI Officer and this is a FOI site. The Information
Commission has said you should answer questions but the Council is
ignoring that. If you give a response to my request by normal
email, then I am happy to post up on this site that a response has
been received and what it is. I didn't make this rule of only
contact via the FOI Officer - Stockport Council did for some
obscure reason which I think is to do with the control of what
information escapes the Council - so no ordinary council officer
accidently lets the truth slip.

If you want an actual FOI request then: May I see any documents
which deal with my request for Andrew Webb and Executive Councillor
Mark Weldon to observe for themselves the dangerous traffic
situation the Council will be causing at the proposed Harcourt
Street new school on a former toxic waste dump.

With warmest best wishes

Yours sincerely,

Sheila Oliver

Dear FOI Officer,

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Sheila Oliver

Dear Stockport Borough Council,

Thank you for sending your refusal to my home email address. I am
more than happy for you to post the reply on this website. It was,
of course, a blanket refusal for Councillor Weldon and Mr Webb to
even visit the site. Stockport councillors, and there are only 63,
cost us almost £1 million pa, they get £23,000 worth of free meals
and free parking, but Councillor Weldon can't come to look at the
danger his proposals will cause young people.

I have got proof via the attachment you sent me of the names of the
council officers who are refusing to allow any information to be
disclosed, which will be quite useful to me.

Kind regards

Sheila Oliver

Dear FOI Officer,

Thank your reply. Stockport Council, not me, insisted that every
issue is to be a FOI issue addressed through the FOI Officer. I
can't ask public meeting questions on the subject on the grounds of
an Information Commission decision that I was vexatious based on
information sent them by Stockport Council. I believe it is illegal
to ban council meeting questions on FOI grounds. I simply want to
hold highly paid executive councillors and senior council officers
to account. When and if the first child dies in the dangerous
traffic conditions, then I shall ensure corporate manslaughter
charges are brought. When the first child develops cancer from the
contamination or the venting of asbestos fibres into the school, I
shall ensure corporate manslaughter charges are brought.

Stockport Council has made every issue a FOI matter, which I
suspect it will come to regret. That is why I am asking for an
internal review of yet another refusal.

Yours sincerely,

Sheila Oliver