tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post8450403442425010334..comments2023-05-08T10:46:34.371+01:00Comments on Y Cneifiwr: Red Kev comes to the rescue of their lordships - UpdatedUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-43304659150085987362015-03-23T17:19:23.546+00:002015-03-23T17:19:23.546+00:00Why should we pay for the road to S4C Carmarthen H...Why should we pay for the road to S4C Carmarthen HQ. They should pay. When the previous plans for the Llanelli Crematorium were put in, Carms CC decided that there should be a new roundabout at a cost of a third of a million pounds. The company decided to with draw and it was only through the positive determination of the Joint Burial Authority that a new crematorium company was found who were prepared to contribute to the additional road works cost.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-40344533450694098542015-03-11T15:00:24.206+00:002015-03-11T15:00:24.206+00:00mewn rhai ardaloedd maent yn cynnal referendum am ...mewn rhai ardaloedd maent yn cynnal referendum am faterion amheus ac amwys amhoblogaidd mae cynghorau yn benderfynol o weithredu - nag os modd cymryd camau tebyg ar y mater cynllunio yma?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-81103938111601446512015-03-10T11:40:52.261+00:002015-03-10T11:40:52.261+00:00Don't CCC councillors have the right, as they ...Don't CCC councillors have the right, as they do in Pembrokeshire, to call in an executive board decision?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-23340994001172805542015-03-09T19:41:59.667+00:002015-03-09T19:41:59.667+00:00How many more times must we be told that the Ombud...How many more times must we be told that the Ombudsman has no real control over the workings of Carmarthen County Council? This the same Council that wants to be the most transparent in the country. So often they do their own thing and are answerable to no one.As can be seen by any web-cast viewer dissent or questioning is slapped down very quickly or ignored. These people in the Council, are except for the councillors themselves, unelected . How many stories of complaints about the operations of the planning department do we hear of?Personal opinion and prejudice are so often used as an excuse to deter planning applications. Democracy does not rule in Carmarthen. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-18998095807378022132015-03-09T17:46:42.789+00:002015-03-09T17:46:42.789+00:00CCC don't care about service users.....commonl...CCC don't care about service users.....commonly know as mushrooms....kept in the dark and fed shit!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-37137434544598859622015-03-09T17:38:16.046+00:002015-03-09T17:38:16.046+00:00Blodwen - no. A little further to the south, altho...Blodwen - no. A little further to the south, although as you hint, it is odd that business interests from the part of the world seem to find Carmarthenshire so interesting.Cneifiwrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08767078276794410524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-35498983322484357242015-03-09T17:20:48.275+00:002015-03-09T17:20:48.275+00:00This group of East Anglian businessmen who are pla...This group of East Anglian businessmen who are planning to develop part of the West Carmarthen site - they don't happen to be based anywhere near Boston in Lincolnshire do they?Blodwennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-17931920350953932582015-03-05T00:40:49.542+00:002015-03-05T00:40:49.542+00:00Personally I don't think the Ombudsman wanted ...Personally I don't think the Ombudsman wanted to investigate our complaint because it would have proved the CCC do not take on board the recommendations of his reports. They say they have and that things have changed but they haven't. <br /><br />The Ombudsman could tell from our complaint maladministration was on going regarding POVA, whistleblowing and complaints. So many bad reports mainly because officers fail to follow policies and procedures. The Ombudsman seems to have reinvented his remit after that Taro 9 interview where it concerns our (whistleblowers)complaint to him even though he had started to investigate it. What has taken place proves the Ombudsman is not a body able to keep our public bodies on the straight and narrow. The CCC has no respect for him or his reports as they just carry on "Doing it their way". Officers and ultimately the CEO and the Executive must be held accountable if there is to be any improvement in the CCC's handling of POVA, Complaints and whistleblowing concerns and the Ombudsman does not do that.<br /><br />Delyth the report in 2009 concerning your complaint was not taken seriously by the Social Care Health and Housing Department nor by the CEO and the Executive. Had it been we whistleblowers in 2010 would not have needed to try and persuade the Ombudsman to investigate the CCC's handling of our disclosers and POVA. I think the Ombudsman is not effective by choice if not by design. He fails the public interest by allowing the CCC to run rings round him. He talks the talk but fails, in the long run, to protect the service users and the public from the shenanigans of the CCC. I think he is the CCC's protector not the public's protector. Whistleblowers see what is happening on the ground and for the CCC complaints manager and the Ombudsman to say whistleblowers cannot complain is completely out of order!<br /><br />Jennifer Brown (whistleblower) Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-77872282730395777722015-03-03T22:35:21.419+00:002015-03-03T22:35:21.419+00:00These "developers" - 5 posh squire types...These "developers" - 5 posh squire types - appear to be involved in companies where the liabilities hugely outweigh the assets. And have frequently been directors of companies that have gone into liquidation......Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-71185577923275176312015-03-03T20:33:19.875+00:002015-03-03T20:33:19.875+00:00Jennifer Brown 18.14
The Ombudsman's hands we...Jennifer Brown 18.14<br /><br />The Ombudsman's hands were rather tied when I took my complaint to him, because just over a week after my complaint to him about the failure of C.C.C to investigate the first abuse nearly a year on, a second abuser, a carer, hit the same service user over the back of the head and admitted it. They had to find a way all round to stop this getting into the public domain at the time. I would like to think that the Ombudsman would have investigated anyway, and I was pleased that the former Public Services Ombudsman for Wales, Peter Tyndall, said in the TARO 9 programme, when interviewed, that I was right to take my complaint to him.<br /><br />Delyth JenkinsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-13403491502997147572015-03-02T13:15:33.344+00:002015-03-02T13:15:33.344+00:00It is clear that the council moved very quickly on...It is clear that the council moved very quickly on this to allay the concerns of the Welsh Government. Usually a deferment of an application for something as serious as this takes months to resolve. I also noticed that the report to the executive board which you mention in your post, related to funding for link road, was given a special mention by Cllr Edmunds during his budget presentation.<br />All the signs are there for a hefty contribution for the benefit of the developers.<br />I watched the planning committee webcast last week and the officers' case for recommendation was full of holes, as you've pointed out. There also seemed to be something of a panic when it looked like cllrs were on the brink of refusing it.<br /><br />Anyway, I'll get back now to putting ribbons on my kittens...caebrwynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17233902574832152764noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-76662084885769765072015-03-02T09:58:55.152+00:002015-03-02T09:58:55.152+00:00Having recently attended a CCC Planning Seminar (a...Having recently attended a CCC Planning Seminar (aka PR session) with presentations on Positive Planning, the LDP & the new Community Infrastructure Levy, (oh and Biodiversity) it seems clear with decisions like the West Carmarthen development still being made, there is no regard for the existing views and needs of ratepayers and the services for which they pay. It is disgraceful that such plans can worm their way around the sect106 agreements and infrastructure levies, and dig into council reserves that should be used for maintaining residents existing services. The Health Board is also under huge pressure with GP and dentistry practice provision , and district and hospital nurse recruitment. But perhaps all the potential purchasers of these 'executive' developments will be able to afford private care? m1booksnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-54080832566117040652015-03-02T09:46:36.626+00:002015-03-02T09:46:36.626+00:00Management by fear and intimidation obviously aliv...Management by fear and intimidation obviously alive and well in Carmarthen. Led by the biggest bigot possible.<br /><br />This man clearly is only interested in self gain, was convinced he would be appointed vice-chancellor at Bath university and when it transpired he wasn't qualified then decided to remain in his current post.<br /><br />Quite frankly, if he cannot demonstrate loyalty to the council he needs to go. He clearly wants to leave and has indicated so via actively seeking alternative employment.<br /><br />This person needs to be sent packing, however its achieved; service no longer required, dismissed, displaced. Whatever it takes. Carmarthenshire needs someone with trust and integrity, neither of which james has, yet alone ever displayed towards those he is meant to support.<br /><br />Cut the head of the snake off and the other morons will be left vulnerable. It will only be a matter of time to then see some sense of normality return to council chambers.<br /><br />Local elections are coming and the population need a strong message to convince them of the self serving indifference displayed by those councillors representing them, apparently. Take heed and remove/replace.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-6294669791931482332015-03-01T18:14:04.475+00:002015-03-01T18:14:04.475+00:00We must not forget that Dave Gilbert is no Mark Ja... We must not forget that Dave Gilbert is no Mark James. Of course whatever he promised when he was holding the reins for Mark James holds no water now even if Eifion Bowen agreed with what was said at the time.<br /><br />How can the CEO be allowed to push through his pet projects with no concern regarding the many obstacles in the path? The money he will be having thrown into the mix is our money not his to misuse and abuse as he did when he took on the blogger for libel who like Cneifiwr is trying to keep us the public, his employers up to date with his shenanigans.<br /><br />I have a horrible feeling he will feel no remorse for any money he may have wasted with his pet projects. I say "he" is responsible because "he" seems to have the kind of personality that projects authority and anyone who fails to agree with him is a fool. No one wants to appear a fool or cross him.<br /><br />I have never met him though I have contacted him as a whistleblower and been completely ignored. As a whistleblowing care worker in his eyes I am no doubt beneath contempt. Policies and procedures mean nothing to him as another whistleblower found out as he shouted at her even though she was accompanied by her MP. This shows a lot as to his character and self importance/interest. The public interest should come before the vagaries of one man. Am I going over the top? Maybe; but I have tried every way possible to have the officers actions investigated preferably internally and according to policies and procedures and have completely failed. Externally regulators tell me to complain to Ombudsman if the LA fail to look at my complaint. Ombudsman ignores the problems suddenly announcing as I'm a whistleblower the complaint/disclosure cannot be investigated by him (not in his remit but do you remember Delyth Jenkins?). WHY put the Ombudsman in the whistleblowing policy to be contacted if that was the case. WAG ignores the problems concerning the culture of defensiveness, cover up and the reports of serious maladministration perpetrated by council officers against Complainants and at least one whistleblower. Of course there has been no investigation thus no report of the maladministration in regard to my disclosures and complaints.<br /><br />Jennifer Brown (whistleblower)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-118857435900510280.post-45110883713416506212015-03-01T11:30:17.704+00:002015-03-01T11:30:17.704+00:00I was present at a public meeting which was called...I was present at a public meeting which was called to object to these proposals when the huge Carmarthen West development was first proposed. Dave Gilbert and Eifion Bowen were both present at that meeting and they categorically assured us that the council would not be paying for the new road and development would not start until a new road was in place. <br /><br />There are so many reasons why this development should not be allowed to go ahead - one of which is that the so-called housing needs for the predicted future population of Carmarthen are based on false statistics.<br /><br />Apart from the problems with the infrastructure - roads, sewerage system etc, where are the jobs for the residents of 1200 new houses going to be found? How will Glangwili Hospital and doctors' surgeries, already stretched, cope with the needs of the extra numbers? <br /><br />How can this possibly be of any benefit to the town? It really is time that we have a referendum before such plans can be put in place in face of such overwhelming local opposition.Lesley Williamsnoreply@blogger.com