Blog entered 26 September 2014

Latest up-date from “Justice for Ernest John Coles” Facebook Timeline.

“Ok we have hired a lawyer who I trust will do Ernest proud. There are a few of us behind the scenes working with this and we will be setting up a trust fund account linked to pay pal for anyone who would like to help with the costs involved. It will be completely transparent and figures available for scrutiny by those in Ernest’s Army. A donate button has been added today but it is not set up yet.
It will be up and running by next week…..THANK YOU on behalf of Mr.Coles for your support with his mission for the elderly…. this man will go down in History as a Legend and a Warrior”, unquote.

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Up-Date : Evening of 26 September 2014, on Facebook.

“spent the day with Ernest today and showed him the draft for christmas cards …a tear came to his eye and then he smiled, also spent time with a friend he has known for 30 years and talked about the accusations made about him by the care home….got some on film and will post soon…..”, unquote.

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Up-Date : 27 September 2014. There is a Petition at = http://ipt.io/hbea via @ipetitions. The intro needs up-dating but the Petition is live.

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Blog entered 26 September 2014

Latest up-date from “Justice for Ernest John Coles” Facebook Timeline.

“Ok we have hired a lawyer who I trust will do Ernest proud. There are a few of us behind the scenes working with this and we will be setting up a trust fund account linked to pay pal for anyone who would like to help with the costs involved. It will be completely transparent and figures available for scrutiny by those in Ernest’s Army. A donate button has been added today but it is not set up yet.
It will be up and running by next week…..THANK YOU on behalf of Mr.Coles for your support with his mission for the elderly…. this man will go down in History as a Legend and a Warrior”, unquote.

Blog entered 18 September 2014.

                         ROTHERHAM

Every town has it’s Rotherham because every town has it’s own career minded team players who will look the other way for self preservation.

Blog entered 14 September 2014.

                   DUMB AND DUMBER

Joint Trophy Winners for Sunday 14 September 2014 goes to Dumb and Dumber. Dumb being Sanctuary Housing’s Simon Clark, Managing Director, Sanctuary Housing Services, and Dumber being Sanctuary’s CEO David Bennett.

Readers may recall the 2009 rip-off when Sanctuary took weekly Service Charge payments but frauduently failed to deliver the Services. This went on for many months and involved Sanctuary in all sorts of criminal activity. This led to an official complaint which Sanctuary needed to bury so the Charity financed an external Mediation Scam by TPAS. This involved further criminal activity by Sanctuary CEO David Bennett, Directors and Group Board Members including Judge Rosemary Crawley.

Since 2009 Cornwall Council and Stephen Gilbert MP have been kept advised of the continuing fraud upon myself and the Timber Close residents/constituents. So much so that the residents now collectively pay Sanctuary in excess of £130.00 for 2 hours gardening per week, or £520.00 for approximately 8 hours work a month etc etc..

Cornwall Council has sought only to protect it’s corrupt housing partner while Stephen Gilbert MP has sought only to sit on a fence facing the wrong way. Although we have corresponded atleast 2 dozen times not one single email/letter has produced one single improvement and we are still being ripped-off.

The gardening tasks which should be done every week, Sanctuary’s part of the deal so to speak, is indicated in the ‘Grounds Maintenance Specification’ which we use to receive but which now has to be requested.

When the new 2014 – 2015 weekly Rent/Service Charge period began in July I requested the GMS in my weekly email to Clark and Crawley and have now asked every week for the past 3 months but still remain without a copy. I have been assured my weekly emails are forwarded to the Godfather, the Dumber one, who is ultimately responsible as head of this organised crime syndicate which presents itself as a respectable Charity, and who himself is rewarded in excess of £310.000 a year.

One of the most contentious issues in 2009 was branches growing up through rotary drier lines which is only possible if specified tasks in the GMS are willfuly neglected for a considerable period of time.

According to the 2013 – 2014 GMS shrubs should be pruned and trimmed monthly in accordance with standard horticultural practice.

The picture was taken yesterday, Saturday 13 September 2014, and shows branches growing up through the rotary drier lines despite the drier being fully extended. The branches currently extend a further 10 inches above these lines.

This despite the Sanctuary Estate Team gardner visiting every week, despite a recent visit by 2 Sanctuary Housing Officers (see Minute Blog dated 11 August 2014), despite Sanctuary maintenance replacing a nearby drier line the other week, and despite Dumb and Dumber being forwarned of this neglect in my weekly emails. That Sanctuary has continued to willfuly take money under false pretences.

This somewhat two green fingered horticultural fraud with a not so delicate aroma of manure alfresco deja vu is therefore awarded to Simon Clark and CEO David Bennett for their contributions to organised crime and for proving there will always be a place in a Tory Britain for men-ure like them.

Footnote : This is not the first time Clark has been awarded an Idiot Trophy for the neglect of this shrub bed and he last won it almost 17 months ago on 15 April 2013.

According to Clark “the bed you refer to is maintained by Sanctuary’s Estates Services team and is not the responsibility of the tenant. The works specification includes weeding, pruning and de-littering of shrub beds at regular intervals. We do not believe there is any cause for concern with the standard of works, however we will ensure this area is inspected when the housing officer next visits Timber Close”, unquote, dated 4th April 2013. CEO Bennett would have been privy to Clark’s statement.

The shrub bed Clark was referring to at that time had not in fact been touched for over a year, that he willfuly lied, despite Sanctuary taking weekly Service Charge payments to maintain the bed. The central shrub then grew and grew and grew into the giant green line devouring ‘Mother of a Shrub’ we have today. You are so full of manure Simon.

Blog entered 08 September 2014

CORNWALL HOMECHOICE ‘WILLFUL DECEPTION AWARD’ (10)

A weekly feature which will consider the picture Cornwall Homechoice applicants come across when trying to view the property they are considering bidding on.

Since posting the first (2) awards I have now added a 3rd award in response to a growing contempt towards bidders.
According to Cornwall Council it is the Landlord who is responsible for adding the picture to the advertisement.

Because the advertisement is on Cornwall Council’s website the ‘Willful Deception Award’ is therefore awarded to both the Council, for abdicating it’s responsibility to the public, and it’s worst 3 housing partners for that week.

In most cases the picture will be willfuly misleading because the Council/partners would have been aware of the problem previously.

Week (10) : 06/09/2014 to 10/09/2014.

1st place ‘Willful Deception Award’ goes to CORNWALL COUNCIL & DEVON & CORNWALL HOUSING (DCH), for using the “No Photo Available” image for 5 properties, and ‘Artist’s impression for 1 property. CC & DCH came 1st last week.

DCH is another one of those rich housing charities which consistently cannot be bothered.

2nd place ‘Willful Deception Award’ goes to CORNWALL COUNCIL & SANCTUARY HOUSING for using the same “Artist impression” images for different locations (see below (*). Other Landlords do it as well and they will be named.

3rd place ‘Willful Deception Award’. There is no 3rd place this week. A continuing improvement.

(*) This week’s selected picture shows a Sanctuary Housing Property advertised this week, Ref : 16219. The picture is described as an ‘Artist impression’ of a 1 Bed Flat in St. Stephens Court, Launceston, but what does the term actually mean ?

This is one of Sanctuary Housing’s Stock Photos for Launceston which means it will appear multiple time as different types of property and in completely different locations. Last month for example it was a 2 Bed Flat in Roydon Road, Launceston, etc. etc.. I confess I was disappointed because it does actually look like a really nice place to live.

Does anybody know where the actual location is ? Send me your similar image and I will up-date the information.

The serious side to this on-going problem is that when I have gathered enough evidence I will lodge a formal written complaint with Devon & Cornwall Constabulary.

But won’t D&CC just protect Cornwall Council and the Landlords I hear you say ? absolutely, but what D&CC won’t do is claim it never received it.

Update 25/07/14 : A Manager representing Cornwall Council has since confirmed in writing that Cornwall Council will not accept any responsibility for misleading or “willfuly misleading” photographs or information which appear on the Council’s website with regard to Cornwall Homechoice.

Update 31/08/14 : I have it on good authority that Cornwall Council is responsible for errors remaining on it’s website if errors are pointed out to it, and that it will ask the Landlord to supply the correct information as a matter of urgency.

If errors are repeated, such as Sanctuary Housing willfuly using the same misleading and reported picture numerous times since 2010, this is the result of something far more sinister.

Or more recently when Guinness Hermitage used an erroneous picture of a block of flats instead of the advertised 3 bedroom house, the Council was informed of the error, the advertisement ran it’s course, the 3 bedroom house then disappeared, was then re-advertised a month later with added text but again used the same erroneous picture of the block of flats.

Footnote : Although I appreciate Landlords may not want the public to know a property belonging to them is empty, and therefore do not want the property to be identified, this is the system the Council introduced and which the Landlords agreed to follow. While it remains in use the Council and the Landlords should adhere to it.

I am also aware of some properties which the Council and the Landlord did not want identified because the properties were ‘ringfenced’, and which involved the Council and the Landlord in all sorts of unlawful practises.