Bonn Square
From:
Julia Gasper
Date:
Oct 02 07:56 UTC
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After six months of protracted correspondence, our collective complaint to the
Local Government Ombudsman has now reached what appears to be the final stage.
The LGO, J. R.White, has decided that he is simply not going to investigate the
complaint at all, because he recognizes that we think the City Council acted
undemocratically, he does not consider that this constitutes a "significant
personal injustice".
He also says that I live too far away from Bonn Square for it to "have
materially affected" me.
He apparently believes that one's concern about the environment should be
limited to a radius of about a mile from wherever one happens to live.
So after all those months of patiently striving to have our complaint heard, it
has been considered for about five minutes and then dismissed without
investigation. Can anyone really say that they are surprised?
The other people who co-signed the complaint are of course welcome to see the
letter, which arrived here by post this morning.
It reminds us that the Audit Commission exists for complaints about City
Councils misusing public money, and we still have the option of putting a
further complaint to that commission. If anybody is willing to put their
signature to such a complaint, please contact me.
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