There is to be a Special Meeting of the Brent Council Resources and Public Realm Scrutiny Committee on Wednesday 30th November LINK to examine the situation around the proposals on the redevelopment of the Granville and Carlton Centres in South Kilburn. The issues has been covered extensively on Wembley Matters and the Cabinet discussion was reported HERE
The published reasons for the call-in are:
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The published reasons for the call-in are:
· That the process has been flawed with mistakes, warnings not heeded and lack of early consultation.· That insufficient notice has been given to the views of the two Centres, local Councillors and other interested parties.A member who has supported the call-in has provided further reasons for the call-in:· The failure of the Cabinet to ensure that consultation took place with the users of the Granville Centre including the Granville Plus Nursery School.· The failure of the Cabinet to consider (ignored) warnings from a local councillor, that no consultation had taken place with the local community the Head of a popular local school and the parents who use it. Therefore putting valuable community assets under the unnecessary threat of closure and demolition.· The failure of the cabinet to adequately question the officer (consultant) who prepare the report on whether proper consultation had taken place, as it seem likely the consultant ever (sic) visited The Granville /Carlton centres or spoke to stakeholders.· The failure of the cabinet to engage with the South Kilburn Trust putting £2 Million at risk for a local employment Hub.· The failure of the Lead member for Regeneration to visit Kilburn or talk to stakeholders from May to the present day to re-assure local residents that there would be adequate consultation.· The failure of the Lead Member for regeneration to response to email requests for a meeting between Local councillors the Leader and CEO, between July and November.
6 comments:
I see Sam Stopp has now returned to Scrutiny. He's moaned about regeneration and inadequate consultation before. Seems the stars have aligned...
Re: "The failure of the cabinet to adequately question the officer (consultant) who prepare the report on whether proper consultation had taken place, as it seem likely the consultant ever (sic) visited The Granville /Carlton centres or spoke to stakeholders,"
I quote from Jean-Paul Sartre's adaptation -- during Algeria's War of Independence from France -- of Euripides' play 'The Trojan Women': "Those who give the order seldom see the mess it makes."
Alan Wheatley
he is MIA since not getting a job and supporting Pavey he has abandoned the residents of Wembley central and totally shafted his fellow councillors ms Krupa Shetha and Wilhelmina Mitchell. Was never gonna infiltrate the upper echelons of Richmond. Zac Goldsmith got it sorted even as an Independent. Come home Bro and sort out the ppl that elected you to be a councillor, never a gonna be good when you forget the ppl that elected you to office!!
well done to those councillors for calling it in. Let's hope the scrutiny committee show a similar level of integrity. Butt is well-known to apply intense pressure to committees to do his bidding. Let's hope scrutiny resist this interfering and blow open this sorry saga.
LOL! Hardly. Stopp is very, very far from perfect. But Sheth and Mitchell-Murray are widely regarded as amongst the most ineffective of all Brent cllrs - and that's saying something! Mitchell-Murray didn't attend Full Council this week and Sheth was slapped down by the Mayor for reading out the wrong scripted question. Useless.
Krupa Sheth read out the written question she has asked, which had already received a written answer. The procedure is that the councillor can then ask a supplementary question based on that answer. That means departing from a script which is something several councillors find difficult although Janice Long manages fine.
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