Councillor
Graham Wells - a team player, but what does that team spirit extend.
In the search for truth and solutions would this councillor allow officers
to pull the wool over his eyes? We are concerned as to the institutionalized cover up past lies - and that implicates all
of the staff and members that go along with it.
Admission of the facts is a far healthier way to a sustainable
future.
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TN5 6ES
Tel: 01892 783583
Email:
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Graham
has/had responsibility at Wealden DC for Affordable
Housing, and that is a laugh if ever we've heard one. For years this
council have done all within their power not to deliver housing at
affordable prices. Their agenda has been to restrict builds, typically
awarding permissions to favoured developers. The only way that
Councillor Wells can
sort this one out is to sack all the bent planning officers, redraw the
boundaries and purchase land by compulsory orders if that becomes
necessary. But councils are cowards when it comes to securing land for
the poor and homeless, when it means taking it from the rich landowners.
Wealden
is a substantial district covering some 323 square miles of lush
downland where wealthy people like to retire. Hmmm, that sounds a bit
like Roy - so we bet he feels right at home. Wealden is the largest district in East Sussex,
home to some 143,000 people.
EASTBOURNE HERALD Friday 13 January 2012
A NEW Neighbourhood Agreement has been signed to help transform Hailsham’s Town Farm Estate for its 800 households.
A survey organised by Wealden District Council earlier this year identified safety and security, litter and waste dumping, house conditions and lack of community spirit as the four main stumbling blocks to creating a happier community.
Wealden District
Council, Sussex Police, East Sussex Targeted Youth Development Service and the Living Word Community Church have signed a Neighbourhood Agreement with the Town Farm Residents’ Association to work together bring about improvements.
The agreement sets out four priorities: to clean up the appearance of the estate; make people feel safer on Town Farm; improve the Housing Services on the estate and increase the sense of community spirit.
“We are already seeing the benefits of closer working with the Police and Wealden District Council on the estate,” said Councillor Stuart Towner, Chairman of the Town Farm Residents’ Association.
“It is beginning to make a real difference to the community and I hope more organisations will get involved.”
Cllr Graham Wells, Cabinet Member for Affordable Housing on Wealden District Council, said, “I have seen some terrific things on the Town Farm estate.
“The work being done by the Residents’ Association is so important to building up community spirit.
“This agreement has kick started a good working relationship and the Wealden District Council will do all it can to help residents make a real difference.”
PC Justin Dighton, of the Wealden Neighbourhood policing team, said, “This is an exciting time for Town Farm and we fully support this alongside all of the partner agencies.
“It is our aim to ensure everyone can live in a safe and secure environment without feeling worried about their own or others’ wellbeing. PCSO Parrish Claxton and myself already have a very close working relationship with the Residents’ Association and we hope to continue in this vein.”
As a result of the agreement, there will be a new recycling point installed on the estate, a free bulk refuse collection three times a year and an annual community clear-up led by the Residents’ Association.
Sussex Police will continue to support a range of activities for young people on the estate including the new skate park, the Friday Night Project and links with Arlington speedway.
It will also use acceptable behaviour contracts and other ways of monitoring young people who disrupt life on the estate.
As well as pursuing housing improvements on the estate, Wealden’s housing officers will carry out six scheduled walkabouts a year and regularly report to meetings of the Town Farms Residents’ Association.
To encourage community involvement, the Residents’ Association will hold regular open meetings in Hailsham East Community Centre at 6.30pm on the second Tuesday of each month, as well as publish a residents’ newsletter and try to organise a Town Farm football team and other activities for the community.
Weekly youth clubs providing a wide range of activities are organised by the Residents’ Association with support from the Town Council, Targeted Youth Development Service and the Living Word Community Church.
The clubs, for eight-12 year olds and 13-19 year olds, are held at the Maurice Thornton Pavilion.
The agreement follows a popular partnership agreement for the Alderbrook estate in Crowborough.
To make sure the agreement is working, the partners will produce an annual progress report in November each year.
Another survey of the estate will be carried out in April 2013.
A
RESPONSIBLE COUNCIL
This Council's
responsibilities include housing, planning, building control, waste collection, recycling, emergency planning and economic regeneration.
That last one appears beyond the grasp of civil servants - and that is why
the national debt is so high. They spend taxpayers money tying up would
be entrepreneurs in knots, yet these entrepreneurs are the grass-roots
lifeblood of the economy. As many readers will appreciate, government
directives are to encourage small businesses. Wealden, don't seem to get
it. The national debt is increasing by some £2.5 billion a week, and
all local authorities with corrupt officers still in their employ are
partly to blame.
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Two-thirds of the district is covered by the High Weald and Sussex Downs Areas of Outstanding Natural
Beauty. There are 34 conservation areas and over 2,500 listed buildings, Wealden places a high value on protecting the
countryside, but no value at all on protecting buildings of local
historic interest - and that is why there is no Local List.
Councillor
Robert Standley is obviously a team player, but does that extend to covering up the
inconvenient truth, or are the officers pulling the wool over his eyes?
Nelson
Kruschandl is a victim of council discrimination, a Human
Rights violation and other abuses of office. This appears to be institutionalized, all
departments put on alert to cover up past lies. Roy Galley is now in the
loop. Let us see if anything changes ......
We
don't know what they are laughing at. This council has one of the worst
records of Human Rights abuses of any council that we have reported on. There
is no affordable housing
in the district and there is a shortfall of around
20,000 houses brought about by the empire building and backhander regime
fostered by the longest serving planning and enforcement officers. Oh, of
course, they are laughing because the ratepayer is paying them to screw it up
and they still get their expenses.
WEALDEN'S
CABINET & RESPONSIBILITIES 2012:
Cllr Bob Standley — Leader; also responsible for Finance and Policy.
Cllr Claire Dowling — Corporate Services and Deputy Leader.
Cllr Jan Dunk — Corporate Assets.
Cllr Rowena Moore — Waste Management.
Cllr Roy Galley — Planning & Development.
Cllr Graham Wells — Affordable Housing.
Cllr Johanna Howell — Community and Voluntary Sector.
Cllr Jonica Fox was re-elected Chairman of the Council unopposed
Cllr
Brian Redman was elected vice-chairman
AGREEMENT
SIGNING - (left to right) Alan Dalton (Vice Chairperson; Town Farm Residents Association), Steve Houghton (Living Word Community
Church), Stuart Towner (TFRA Chairman & Hailsham Town Council), PC Justin Dighton and Cllr Graham Wells (Affordable Housing portfolio holder, Wealden District Council).
The following positions were also approved by Full
Council in 2012:
Chairman of the Licensing Committee: Cllr Susan
Stedman.
Chairman of the Community and Environment Scrutiny Committee: Cllr David Larkin
Chairman of Internal and Audit Scrutiny Committee: Cllr Huw Merriman.
Chairman of Planning Committee North: Cllr Ann Newton.
Chairman of Planning Committee South: Cllr Barby Dashwood-Morris.
Chairman of the Personnel Committee: Cllr Claire
Dowling.
Chairman of the Standards Committee: Cllr Lin Clark (from 1 July).
Wealden
community strategy LSP Board member RoyGalley
Wealden
Conservatives
OPEN
LETTER
Dear
Councillor Wells,
As
a member of a council responsible for a great many historic towns and
villages, and also caretaker of the public purse, could I ask you to be
especially vigilant against maladministration within the Wealden
District Council.
It
is my experience that your council has allowed some departments to run
riot with taxpayers money. Some officers have used council
resources for their own goals and as a playground for acts of
impropriety such as Ian Kay
speaking for his mason father-in-law
(Bernard Best) at an Area Plans South committee meeting - when that is
forbidden, with George
White allowing that to happen, and sometimes officers cover up past
mistakes turning misfeasance in public officer into malfeasance (a
criminal offence), and other times to
pursue agendas that effectively discriminate against selected members of
the public in violation of Article 14, such as the unlawful demolition
of the Bushy Wood horse sanctuary.
Your
officers have persistently lied to government planning inspectors (Dannreuther
& Michael
to name just two) concerning The Old Steam House in Lime
Park. [now Herstmonceux Museum]
It
took me more than 20 years to reach an understanding with
your council about the Generating Station at Herstmonceux, then having
signed a Court Order
negotiated by Daniel
Goodwin and Trevor
Scott by way of Agreement with Cllr Long
as a witness, accepting that the buildings
are historic and that your officers deceived the Secretary
of State, they then breached that contract and once again denied
everything, possibly being in contempt of court.
A
Petition presented by 12 complainants to Lord
Richard Newton, Jack Gore and Eddie
Powell was whitewashed when the Sussex
Police failed to investigate any of the complaints, with another 39
in the pipeline. Shortly after Derek
Holness vacated the throne on an enhanced pension and Sheelagh
Douglas sat on the potty for
a while, but failed to spend a penny. The Petition could have cleared
things up and purged your Council of corruption. But is was not to be,
hence we must continue to look at the wrongs occasioned by your officers
- even though they would not be empowered to do so if not authorised by
the members.
You
must know that what I describe is a serious breach of my Human Rights -
discrimination run wild. It looks to me as though this may be to allow a
resident in Lime Park to purchase the historic buildings at an
undervalue - which of course constitutes fraud under the Fraud Act
2006.
I recall that David Phillips was in written communication with
solicitors to Peter and June Townley, residents in
Lime Park for many
years, suggesting that they might benefit from use of these historic
buildings - clear
discrimination.
What was wrong with my occupation? Why
should any person have preference to another? It may be that Huw
Andrews, a Hong
Kong resident who has since 2013 owned a property in Lime Park, that
he may have been in contact with your Council to making enquiries on the
planning front. A previous occupier, Louise
Jones, had made enquiries of Trevor Scott, I know that from the
minutes of Lime Park Estate Ltd. If you can confirm or deny the
situation that would be helpful.
I hope
you agree that we cannot afford to let situations like this go
unchecked. It is the duty of every law abiding member to report
suspected crime within their council. Should any member not report
suspected crime, then they become party to that crime and vicariously
liable.
You
were elected to represent the community, not the officers. You were
elected to run the council to the best of your ability, and to stamp our
corruption and discrimination - a clear violation of my rights and a
Human Rights abuse using a position of authority - which makes it all
the worse. It is your duty to
conserve the historic built and natural environments. It is also
your duty to seek to secure adequate services, education, policing and
health care.
These
are particularly difficult times, where public funding is under scrutiny
against local issues, terrorism and global warming are serious
international issues that should be targeted for spending, rather than
waste money trying to cover up the inevitable publication of the wrongs
of your council.
I
am also aware that your council has failed to provide rolling stock for affordable
housing, so perpetuating high house prices, denying those on low
wages a chance to own their own home. This is surely an elitist society,
where those with wealth rape those starting out in life - with help from
officials who consistently fail to provide land for development as per
government directions. And so the housing shortage continues. Empire
building is nothing new in the Wealden district. Big houses for the
wealthy and bungs for the planning officers who steer the planning
applications.
I am relying on you to do the right thing for
your district. If you decide to do nothing, I expect to read about
your resignation, rather than hear you are collecting monies for doing
nothing and staying silent. That would also be fraudulent in my opinion
- by way of obtaining monies by deception. The deception being that you
have helped Wealden with their falsehoods.
Thank
you for taking the time to read this message and I look forward to
hearing from you in the near future. If I do not hear from you I must
assume that you have been bullied by council officers and maybe even
members to the point where you are too frightened to blow
the whistle. I must also assume that in staying silent that you
agree with everything written here and elsewhere on this site.
Yours
sincerely
Nelson
Kruschandl
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COUNCILLORS
SERVING IN 2017 INTO 2018
Councillor Dick Angel
Heathfield
Nth & Cenrl - Cons
Councillor Kevin Balsdon
Pevensey
and Westham - Cons
Councillor Jo Bentley
Hailsham
South and West - Cons
Councillor Bob Bowdler
Heathfield
East - Cons
Councillor Lin Clark
Pevensey
and Westham - Cons
Deputy
Chairman Standards
Councillor Nicholas Collinson
Hailsham
Central & North - Cons
Portfolio
Community Leadership Human Resources
Councillor Nigel Coltman
Hailsham
Central and North - Cons
Chairman
of Licensing
Councillor Dianne Dear
Pevensey
and Westham - Cons
Dep
Chair of Planning South
Councillor Phil Dixon
Rotherfield
- Conservative
Dep
Chair of Audit Finance
Councillor Pam Doodes
Ninfield
& Hooe with Wartling
Conservative
- Vice-Chairman
Councillor Claire Dowling
Uckfield
Central - Cons
Dep
Ldr Public Health Safety
Councillor Jan Dunk
Heathfield
North & Central - Conservative
Councillor Philip Ede
Alfriston
- Conservative
Councillor Helen Firth
Uckfield
New Town - Cons
Councillor Jonica Fox
Cross-in-Hand/
Five Ashes - Conservative
Councillor Roy Galley
Danehill/
Fletching/ Nutley - Cons
Portfolio
Economic Dev & Waste Man
Councillor Richard Grocock
Hailsham
South and West - Cons
Councillor Chris Hardy
Hartfield
- Cons- Chairman
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Councillor Jim Hollins
Crowborough
West - Cons
Councillor Peter Holloway
Forest
Row - Conservative
Councillor Johanna Howell
Frant/
Withyham - Cons
Ch
Planning North
Councillor Toby Illingworth
Buxted
& Maresfield - Cons
Councillor Stephen Isted
Crowborough
Jarvis Brook - Independent
Councillor Andy Long
Herstmonceux
- Cons
Councillor Michael Lunn
Buxted
& Maresfield - Cons
Councillor Philip Lunn
Crowborough
East - Cons
Councillor Barry Marlowe
Uckfield
Ridgewood - Cons
Dep
Ch Licensing
Councillor Rowena Moore
Forest
Row - Conservative
Councillor Kay Moss
Crowborough
St Johns - Cons
Dep
Chair Overview & Scrutiny
Councillor Douglas Murray
Willingdon
- Conservative
Councillor Ann Newton
Framfield
- Cons
Portfolio
Planning & Dev
Councillor Amanda O'Rawe
Hailsham
East - Conservative
Councillor Mark Pinkney
Hellingly
- Conservative
Councillor Dr Brian Redman
Mayfield
- Conservative
Chairman
of Standards Committee
Councillor Ronald Reed
Crowborough
North - Conservative
Councillor Carol Reynolds
Uckfield
North - Cons
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Councillor Greg Rose
Crowborough
East - Cons
Chair
Overview & Scrutiny
Councillor Peter Roundell
Danehill/
Fletching/ Nutley - Cons
Chairman
Audit Finance
Councillor William Rutherford
Frant/
Withyham - Cons
Councillor Daniel Shing
Polegate
South - Ind Democrat
Councillor Oi Lin Shing
Polegate
North - Ind Democrat
Councillor Raymond Shing
Willingdon
- Independent Democrat
Councillor Stephen Shing
Willingdon
- Independent Democrat
Councillor Angela Snell
Polegate
North - Conservative
Councillor Robert Standley
Wadhurst
- Conservative
Leader
of the Council
Councillor Susan Stedman
Horam
- Conservative
Chair
Planning South
Councillor Roger Thomas
Heathfield
North & Central - Cons
Councillor Jeannette Towey
Crowborough
West - Cons
Councillor Chriss Triandafyllou
Hailsham
South and West - Cons
Councillor Peter Waldock
Uckfield
North - Cons
Councillor Neil Waller
Crowborough
North - Cons
Dep
Chair Planning North
Councillor David Watts
Chiddingly
& East Hoathly - Cons
Councillor Graham Wells
Wadhurst
- Cons
Portfolio
Housing & Benefits
Councillor David White
Hellingly
- Independent
Councillor John Wilton
East
Dean - Conservative
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Dick Angel
- Jo Bentley
- John Blake - Bob
Bowdler - Don Broadbent
- Norman Buck - Raymond Cade -
John Carvey
- Lin Clark
Nicholas Collinson - Nigel Coltman - Ronald Cussons -
Barby Dashwood-Morris
- Dianne Dear
- Phil Dixon - Pam Doodes
Claire Dowling
-
Jan Dunk
- Louise Eastwood - Philip Ede - Helen Firth -
Jonica Fox
- Roy Galley -
Richard Grocock - Chris Hardy
Steve Harms
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Jim Hollins - Peter Holloway - Johanna Howell -
Toby Illingworth - Stephen Isted - David Larkin -
Andy Long - Michael Lunn
Barry Marlowe -
Nigel McKeeman - Huw Merriman - Rowena Moore -
Kay Moss - Douglas
Murray - Ann Newton - Ken Ogden
Amanda
O'Rawe - Charles R Peck
- Diane Phillips - Mark Pinkney - Major Antony Quin RM -
Ronald Reed - Dr. Brian Redman
Carol Reynolds -
Greg Rose - Peter Roundell
- William Rutherford -
Daniel Shing
- Oi Lin Shing - Raymond Shing -
Stephen Shing
Robert Standley -
Susan Stedman -
Bill Tooley - Jeanette Towey - Stuart Towner - Chriss Triandafyllou -
Peter Waldock
Neil Waller
- David Watts - Mark Weaver -Graham Wells -
David White - John Wilton
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