WITHOUT PREJUDICE
Dear Ms Webb,
It is now the 1st of May and still neither Chris Bloore (Redditch MP) nor I received the promised copies of letters you said you held. The first related to the conference call between yourself, Russell Griffin (MD), Chris Bloore and me that took place on the 25th February.
You then told me on the 27th February that Persimmon had received a letter from Redditch Borough Council (RBC); I requested a copy:
“I did mention to Chris that we received an email back from the Authority late Tuesday.
There are a couple of final points they want clarifying.
We have arranged to meet them in a few week’s time (sic!) to finalise these points.
I will of course keep you both updated, along with other residents.”
No, you didn’t.
I followed up with subsequent e-mails, but no actual replies that satisfied the promise that was made. You told me that site meetings were to take place.
Indeed, you wrote on the 6th March:
“Following our call last week we have arranged a meeting on site with the Local Authority to finalise a couple of details so that the adoption handover can take place.
Following this visit, we will provide Chris, yourself (sic!) and the other residents with an update.”
No update was received and that’s the last I heard.
Last night there was a Brockhill Residents’ Association AGM. Councillor Sachin Mathur provided an update from RBC, the like of which I had heard many times over the course of the last 14 years. However, not his fault, but, unfortunately, naively he believed in the response. I wish him well in him being correct.
What if, I wonder, Persimmon have no interest in resolving this matter.
What if, I wonder, RBC is either totally incompetent or also cannot be bothered to resolve the matter.
I think it is fair to say that I feel that Persimmon’s lack of response to me has been both rude and unprofessional.
I’d argue that the monies owed have now diminished over a period of years by inflation and that interest is due in line with the RPI over that interval. To my knowledge more than 14 years. When I got figures back then it amounted to more than £500K to pay RBC to adopt the various open spaces.
Instead of trying to resolve all the open spaces in one go why has no one attempted to deal with each site individually?
This e-mail will be BCCd to other parties and posted onto the petition page I created some time ago. It will also be circulated to both national and local media.
I do think it is rather bizarre, that over the years, this matter has been front page news in the local press several times, and no one feels ashamed over the matter of delays and obfuscation.
I find the response here (5th July 2024) rather trite and an attempt get out of gaol free:
https://redditchstandard.co.uk/editions/view/?/Redditch/2024/07/05&pages=32
More frustration appeared here back in 2019:
For Chris Bloore….
@chris.bloore.mp@parliament.uk – At one of our meetings you mentioned naming and shaming persimmon in the House of Commons, is this still on the cards
For Brockhill residents…..
@'committee@brockhill.org.uk' – You may wish to circulate this amongst the membership.