Re: NIMBY WAR : Fri May 07, 2010 11:55 am  

JINJER wrote:

Seems ultra anonymous,at least we at SWAG have our individual names posted on our website!!

Indeed. He has now taken his name off of the registration for one of the business websites.

Re: NIMBY WAR : Fri May 07, 2010 3:15 pm  

Second e-mail sent regarding the Wakefield Council link and the statements made on that page.

Following on from my recent e-mail to you regarding this website, please find below my response and some questions regarding your statements.

Your Council has paid £150,000 of ratepayer’s money into a "Trust" to pay for a feasibility study on the proposed development

The money in question is in actual fact a loan, which is repayable in full plus interest when the funding is released after planning permission is granted

Your Council has backed loans to all three Wakefield rugby clubs - all privately owned - by offering millions of pounds worth of council-owned land as a guarantee

The land in question is indeed owned by the council but is classed as undevelopable and is therefore lying fallow and unused by anyone for any other purpose. The use of this land as collateral will help Wakefield Council achieve their goal of providing world-class sporting facilities for the wider use of the community; I fail to see how this is an inappropriate way of using this Wakefield Council asset.

MILLIONS of square feet of industrial units lie empty in Whitwood and Normanton

Can you substantiate your claim that "millions of square feet of industrial units lie empty" in this area? Please reply to my e-mail stating the source of your facts.

Yet more "tin sheds" at Stanley

Once again I assume you are using this derogatory term to describe the businesses which will provide job opportunities to approximately 2,500 residents from the local area.

Councillor Box and his deputy Councillor Denise Jeffery (Labour - Castleford Central & Glasshoughton) have presided over the secrecy which has surrounded the Council's relationship with developer Yorkcourt Properties?

What secrecy? I refer you to the answer I gave in my first e-mail to you regarding public forums, normal planning procedures, which include press releases, high-profile news articles, page after page of web space on various Internet websites, the displaying of the plans in Wakefield's Ridings shopping centre and the very public forum organised and run by the developer at which local residents were able to put questions directly to the architects, members of the charitable trust, representatives of Wakefield Council and Wildcats.

FAILED to notify their neighbours at Leeds City Council of the full proposal

Whilst Wakefield Council has no obligation to consult with Leeds council regarding developments in the Wakefield area, they were professional and courteous enough to communicate their plans with the relevant people at Leeds City Council. So once again, I am bemused by the source of your facts as they are very wide of the mark and once again I ask you to respond to this e-mail stating your source in order that I might verify your statement.

Finally....
Roy Bickerton

You're desperate attempt to link this controversial individual with the Newmarket developments is underhand and dishonest in its own right! This transparent attempt to smear the good name of those people involved at Wakefield Council, Yorkcourt Properties and Wakefield Trinity is yet another shameful tactic employed by you.

I would welcome the courtesy of a response to my e-mails
Thank you

Re: NIMBY WAR : Fri May 07, 2010 3:53 pm  

... I suspect you will be waiting a long time for the reply.

Drove passed a couple of elderly NIMBYS this morning putting the new leaflets through doors on Aberford Road near Newmarket Lane. If I'd had more time, and no Trinity stickers in the car I would have stopped and asked them about the pack of lies they are peddling

There is a double sided A4 letter with the flyer (I have a copy of both now from my 'mole' down Bottomboat) .... Stanley to Methley flooded by sewage, 5000 cars trying to park down Bottomboat and Moorhouse, on an Iron Age Settlement, otter and water vole habitats completely destroyed, litter everywhere etc.. etc.. etc..

Re: NIMBY WAR : Fri May 07, 2010 4:04 pm  

Catwoman1 wrote:

... I suspect you will be waiting a long time for the reply.

Drove passed a couple of elderly NIMBYS this morning putting the new leaflets through doors on Aberford Road near Newmarket Lane. If I'd had more time, and no Trinity stickers in the car I would have stopped and asked them about the pack of lies they are peddling

There is a double sided A4 letter with the flyer (I have a copy of both now from my 'mole' down Bottomboat) .... Stanley to Methley flooded by sewerage, 5000 cars trying to park down Bottomboat and Moorhouse, on an Iron Age Settlement, otter and water vole habitats completely destroyed, litter everywhere etc.. etc.. etc..

Realistically I don't expect to receive a reply neither do expect them to post my message on the website however, if they ever partake in a public forum I would use my correspondences with them and their lack of professionalism in replying, against them.

I hate the way that this or these individuals can peddle this crap without any kind of comeback, you'd think in this day and age that there would be some way to force these people into retracting their comments and posting some kind of apology, though I suspect that's Wishful thinking on my part.

I hope these people get exposed for what they are as publicly as possible sometime soon

Re: NIMBY WAR : Fri May 07, 2010 4:28 pm  

hmm let me do some investigation but I think this Roy Bickerton may in fact be a featherstone supporter, i'll report back when I find out

Re: NIMBY WAR : Fri May 07, 2010 7:13 pm  

http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CouncilAndD ... tonRoy.htm Interesting link for you

http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CouncilAndD ... tonRoy.htm Interesting link for you

Re: NIMBY WAR : Fri May 07, 2010 7:17 pm  

mark73 wrote: http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CouncilAndDemocracy/Councillors/Councillors/BickertonRoy.htm Interesting link for you Another one http://www.pontefractandcastlefordexpre ... 5961468.jp

mark73 wrote: http://www.wakefield.gov.uk/CouncilAndDemocracy/Councillors/Councillors/BickertonRoy.htm Interesting link for you Another one http://www.pontefractandcastlefordexpre ... 5961468.jp

Re: NIMBY WAR : Fri May 07, 2010 7:24 pm  

He also lost his seat to the Labour candidate in yesterday's election.

So not only was he suspended, he's also no longer a councillor. How embarrassing to have linked him in a negative way to this non-council funded project. How potentially libelous. How rude...

Re: NIMBY WAR : Fri May 07, 2010 7:27 pm  

Oh dear thats not very clever, to have a leader with a murky backgound

Re: NIMBY WAR : Sat May 08, 2010 9:23 pm  

Oh dear, here we go again. It is clearly the same person (and some of his neighbours) behind Wakefield CCG and we already know who that is! The website layout, the language, it is all the same as the other site. He has gone to greater lengths this time to formally conceal his identity and the site http://www.wakefieldangryresidents.com has been registered through Tucows and he is using an identity security service to conceal his registration details. I understand that this is easier to do with a .com address rather than a .co.uk address. Mrs Armadillo, who is the communications professional in our house, thinks it probably does libel the council but that they are unlikely to do anything about it as it is not worth the effort or money! I am going to post this on my original thread. I spoke to the Wakefield Express and they have back-tracked slightly about a pro-residents story! They DO want to run the story but not until there is a reason (in their eyes) to run it! So maybe another a development in the story, near to the planning meeting itself etc. It is a little disappointing but it is yes, but when they say yes unfortunately! Watch this space, we need to keep fighting the rubbish being peddled by these NIMBY's.

Oh dear, here we go again. It is clearly the same person (and some of his neighbours) behind Wakefield CCG and we already know who that is! The website layout, the language, it is all the same as the other site. He has gone to greater lengths this time to formally conceal his identity and the site http://www.wakefieldangryresidents.com has been registered through Tucows and he is using an identity security service to conceal his registration details. I understand that this is easier to do with a .com address rather than a .co.uk address. Mrs Armadillo, who is the communications professional in our house, thinks it probably does libel the council but that they are unlikely to do anything about it as it is not worth the effort or money! I am going to post this on my original thread. I spoke to the Wakefield Express and they have back-tracked slightly about a pro-residents story! They DO want to run the story but not until there is a reason (in their eyes) to run it! So maybe another a development in the story, near to the planning meeting itself etc. It is a little disappointing but it is yes, but when they say yes unfortunately! Watch this space, we need to keep fighting the rubbish being peddled by these NIMBY's.