Full Social Housing Property Portfolio Stock Condition Surveys

Dear Oldham Borough Council,

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Please can you send as attached electronic scanned PDFs Copies the results of the full Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council Social Housing Property Portfolio Stock Condition Surveys of 2001 and 2005 and 2008. The details of these reports will include the exact dates they were undertaken, the name of the Contractor whom was employed to undertake this work, the cost of these surveys with bills sent in by the contractors and the names of the OMBC employes whom signed off the completed work. Also this information will contain the standard that was requested by OMBC to the contractor under tender and the statutory obligations that OMBC would have been aware of at the time of request.

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Please could you send a copy of the survey that found health and safety reasons that OMBC have used to execute the compulsory purchase order to take and empty large numbers of Homes in the area of Derker in Oldham. The land is now up for sale and left entirely derelict.

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Please could you send the details of the cost of the 2008 refit of the chief executives personal offices and the Rochdale road reception area of the OMBC and indicate which "pot" of money was used to fund this.

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Please could you let me know between which years the £212.000.000 debt was incurred on the OMBC Housing revenue account, and what was the associated usury attached to the servicing of the alleged debt, as in, what type of interest was negotiated and at what rate and with which bank. This amount can be broken down by each year.

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What professional and qualified reasons can OMBC give to its suffering customers that the corporation should ignore and not make any comment or improvements to its housing strategy given the findings and proposals of the 2005 Audit Commission Report on Housing at the time of its issuance.

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Since the OMBC continues to operate in debt and service the debt with interest to a bank and the budget for 2010/11 is based on a 1.9% increase in Council Tax to be implemented in April 2011. Why is it that the budgeting management for OMBC still believe that they hold the power to make an increase on council a tax rise to any number they wish and that keeping this tax to a rise of 1.9% is only as a favor to its paying customers. If the Council believe this tax to be lawful, then please could I receive a full and clear explanation as to how you have arrived to this believe.

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Please provide the evidence that the Queens Royal Charter that OMBC operate under as a Local Government Corporation is still valid.

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In what year was the Coldhurst Estate Built (Just below Oldham Edge, on the town side)

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If you feel that this information will take more than 20 days to scramble together and cost more than £450 please make your explanation clear with regard to why this is the case.

http://www.oldham.gov.uk/council/access-...

Council Information Manager
Oldham Metropolitan Borough Council
Civic Centre, West Street,
Cheapside,Oldham,
Greater Manchester, UK
OL1 1UT.
Telephone 0161 770 4827
email [email address].

Yours faithfully,

Master Wild Hunt

Dear Arshad Hussain,

The OMBC Legal Team have as expected and quite usual decided that UK Legislation that requires them to respond to a transparency request does not and never will apply to this public company. Please see to it that you endeavor to rectify this oversight and remind CEO Charlie Parker to get ready to embrace the pain.

Yours sincerely,

Master Wild Hunt

Dear Barbara Mulvihill,
Let me tell you that your apologies for delays in response and hence breaking UK legislation are not accepted. The delays in response to my last request are expected because your are OMBC a corporation that operates outside legislation . It is usual to for corporate entities to send out apologies and imagine that that would suffice in the hard cold world of commerce and have other people believe that your telling the truth. Unfortunately for you, I am sincere in my approach to due diligence and truth telling as I’m sure Mr Charlie Parker and Paul Entwistle are only to aware.

Questions 4, 5 and 6 of my last request will be rephrased so as you can fully understand my information request and I will take you up on your offer of more information requests, thank you.

request-1
I will wait for the receipt of all financial transactions that I have requested and not yet received with regard to Q1 of last request. These can take the form of internet based banking account statements and invoices that show the corporations VAT numbers, of which your accounts department will have readily available.

request -2
What information does OMBC hold with regard to what exactly Guilts and Sovereign bonds are?
Info:
The Public Loans Works Board is another Uk Government corporate Entity. http://www.dmo.gov.uk/index.aspx?page=PW....
Request:
Will you be able to supply the evidence that £212 million of debt existed and has grown since 1974 at the perpetual interest rates of servicing at between 3.7% to 11.88%. This information will be held in your accounting department under the “Councils” Treasury Management Portfolio?
Info:
Why is it that OMBC have accepted that Central government can miracle away “Overhanging Debt” and produce new debt but in the process not take on the “Loan Redemption” which is the profit making of the interest on the loans, and knew this in 2001. but in the same voice state the an RSL must be a not for profit corporate Entity. In 2001 the HRA debt was already at £137 million and incurring Usury to Central government and other Private organisations to the tune of £50 million.

request -3
What currency is this alleged Debt created in and what commodity is it backed by. Does OMBC have the proof in evidence of information that it has credibility as a solvent Corporate entity with a future without bankruptcy.

request -4
What information is held that a decision was made to create a new Housing Strategy in 2009 and not act upon the findings of the Audit commission in 2005 four years earlier?

request -5
What information is held with OMBC with regard to the term “Council” and the term “Tax”. and outwith of legislation which includes the Companies Acts, how does the council deem this demand for payment as Lawful and legitimate. What is this payment deemed to pay for within Local Government?

request -6
Please send me The Empty Homes Delivery Plans for the years 2001 to 2009, since the Audit Commission report of 1999/2000 found that this area was problematic then. It also found that management accountability and ownership of problems was not in place through the Performance Management Framework.

request -7
What are the total number of voids in the Coldhurst and St. Marys areas of FCHO Owned properties for the years 2004 to the present day (2011) broken down by year and how many of those have been left empty for over 36 months.What information can you send me to show that since 2001 the demand for social housing in the OMBC areas has been in a steady decline.

request -8
What is the length (in a time amount) of the FCHO waiting list for housing and how many people are currently on that list. Please send me the information you hold within this criteria for the years 2004 to 2010.

request -9
What information do you hold to explain why central Government refer to a Local councils as “Communities and Local Government” (CLG) and when did this change occur.

request -10
Why does either central Government or local council still, in 2011 find it difficult to define what a Void actually is. Please send me the OMBC Best use of stock plan of 2001, and OMBC interpretation of the term Void property.

request -11
What information is held at OMBC of decisions made from 2001 and based solely through Assumptions that the retention of housing stock to the council was based on no rise of inflation of above 2.5% on the forward 10 years and that there would be no selling or demolition of the stock, even thought the Council has seen fit to indeed make demolitions of the stock.

request -12
If the “Indicative” value of the stock was £58.4million in 2001, what is the Indicative value of all the Land that the stock is sitting on in 2011? Please send me copies of the mutually signed contracts that show that OMBC own the stock and the land ,and, that it is theirs, as a corporate entity, to sell off?

request -13
Please send the information that is held at OMBC for the years 2004 to 2010 for the areas of St. Marys and Coldhurst with regard to Crime statistics that would allow appropriate implementation of the Allocations Policy, The Empty Homes Delivery Plans and the void repair and turnover and Best Value Reviews, through multi agency working.Or is this information only exclusive from the statistics of Greater Manchester Police Corporation Oldham East and Oldham west divisions. The high crime rates in these areas reflect the wish of other possible domiciles to live in these areas and has not been brought under any control during these years. Paul Entwistle will recognise the importance of this request since he and I heard the very same questions put to failed ex MP Phil Woolas by Cheri Blairs Matrix Barrister James Laddie QC at his Public High Court Trial in Uppermill and he, as expected, did not receive an honest or clear response. The truth of the crime rates in these areas lies in the common knowledge based in evidential fact of all who live in the areas, and reflects in the repairs bills spend for FCHO in these areas during these years.The High Court Judges neglected to reference this point in their finished Judgment submission statement.

request -14
Please supply the information of the dates that were missing from the first four letter sent out by FCHO letting domiciles know that asbestos has been found in Properties in Coldhurst and Failsworth. Please supply the reason as to why the wording in those letters explained that the asbestos was found purely by chance, when in reality it was found in 2005. Please supply the information that was known at that time that the work to remove the asbestos would take 6 days per property. Please supply the information that shows domiciles have the choice not to have the asbestos removed and are not compelled by legislation implemented by force, deceit, fraud and intimidation but can find honorable compliance by known mutual consent.

request -15
Please send me the Central Governments Health and Safety Authority requirements and Legislation that Companies such as OMBC are compelled to clear all asbestos in a given time frame.

Information only:
OMBC Corporation feel that taking harassing and expensive Legal action against Domiciles that do not allow entry to the properties they are paying for, why did they spend £156,000 and request a mere 25% of FCHO housing stock be physically checked and with full knowledge through a desktop exercise of the presence and location of asbestos in all other areas result in a Non intrusive testing exercise that used the subjective words of “Might contain” and “Possible Presence” The Officer with overall responsibility from the Council was John Rooney, Head of Housing Strategy. The company used and paid in this case was Hunters of Manchester during the year 2008, the caveats and limitations handed to this Company in the OMBC brief left the inspectors to report that........ “We have not inspected areas which were unexposed or inaccessible at the time of the survey and consequently we are unable to report that such areas are free from defects. We have not carried out any boroscopic investigation of buildings or any chemical testing of elements to establish the presence of the following,................ Asbestos based materials ..........the results of which may lead to higher repair costs, which are not identified within this report.” It goes on to mention.............. Services, Space Heating – Hot and Cold Water supplies and System........ Elements exist within the survey for surveyors to record defects to the services above. No tests were carried out to establish the safety or quality of water, heating or gas supplies and services. No tests were undertaken to verify the flow of hot water or the efficiency of any boiler or heating appliance within a dwelling.
There is no mention that the contractor Switch2Switch have been repairing these systems for the last 10 years with “no” knowledge of the asbestos contained in their working environment.

Already knowing the outcome of the survey Head of housing transfer Project manager Gerald Davis used the words in 2008 that the survey had achieved and passed the decent homes plus standard meeting the Governments statutory legal obligations and redressing component failure and the Modern standard that was necessary to achieve a sustainable housing quality.

During the same year OMBC found the money to the tune of £778.466 to make the chief executives office more comfortable.

request -16
What information does OMBC hold of the existence of High Court Claims 1MA90001 & 1MA90002. If you have none, than that would explain the non existence of any application from OMBC to have the claims set aside or varied.

request -17
What information is held by the OMBC Legal team of the difference between Legislation and Law and what definition is held by the legal team of the word “Person” and “mens Rea” also “Democracy” & “Democratic process”

request -18
What information does the council hold that they make their own signed Court Liability costs orders.

request -19
Please send me the “offer document” of 2001

request -20
What information does OMBC hold of the paid role that OMBC employee Lawer Bill Bulmer was playing in the Coldhurst Tenants hall on voting day in May 2010, and what information was he holding?

info;
Ex Mp Phil Woolas took office at the beginning of 2005 and is best buddies to CEO Charlie Parker and the Labour Government had already pre structured the “Asset Management Disposal Plans of 2004 to 2011 to sell off £30 Billion worth of UK Common land and buildings infrastructure which included stock of the MOD.

request -21
Why did the very same Government supply the funds to OMBC to stage the show of a “Housing Transfer” project when it already knew to outcome.? Including all the salaries of all employees and side show consultants, what is the total spend of this fiasco? What dates did this program start and Finish? What information is also held that because Government bodies are assumed to be free of a Bankruptcy status and kept in the position of financial debt on purpose, that having debt was a “Bad Thing” but when Tony Blair and Gordon Brown have been promoting Debt usage as viable and a “Good Thing” from the year 1997, having sold all the family Silver and Gold without excuse or reason.

request -22
What information is held at OMBC that the £888 million pounds was found and given to UK Arms Companies to sell magnificent new killing weapons to Israel in July 2004 by Tony Blair on behalf of the UK tax payers has had no impact on the financial position of OMBC in 2011? Since the “Asset Management Disposal Plans of 2004 to 2011 to sell off £30 Billion worth of UK Common land and buildings infrastructure which included stock of the MOD was already in place as a back up commodity with no chance at all that anyone could have predicted a planned world economic Banking pinch.
request -23
What information is held at OMBC that the salary of 1/4 million per annum taken locally from tax payers by Charlie Parker is conducive to being “in line” with UK inflation?

request -24
OMBC have now missed 2 deadlines that UK legislation provides for. What information, if any does the Corporation hold of outstanding unpaid CCJ’s against The Court Service and The Ministry of Justus resigning them to illegitimate Entities, this would include Oldham Magistrates Court?

You have not applied any exemptions to my last request that I disagree with or will be appealing, Thank you.

GOOD DAY

Yours sincerely,

Master Wild Hunt