Approach To Rock Action Plan - Call for end of secrecy
14 October 2024|Action Plans, Campaigns, News
The Tettenhall District Community Trust did, on Mon 7th October 2024, write to David Pattison, COO Wolverhampton City Council, concerning the 'loss of trust' in the community with the council's approach to their earlier petition To ‘resolve ongoing problems with Tettenhall Rock Junction, its immediate surroundings in the Lower Green Area [and to be engaged in] Wolverhampton City Council Rock Junction TRO proposal activities’
Wolverhampton City Council is conducting its next phase of a contentious traffic proposal, in secret and using legal privilege, contrary to agreements reached to consult with the Tettenhall Community Forum on the scope of an independent analysis following residents' concerns being raised.
Campaigners have called for a release of documents concerning the scope of the next phase of analysis, and for an intervention by Council leadership to resolve the discourteous and patronising way residents feel they have been treated.
The approach comes after previous agreements made by Wolverhampton City Council have gone unfulfilled regarding ongoing consultation, and a response to an over 1,000 strong petition, promised since April 2024, has now not been provided.
Campaigners and local residents group(s) leaders consider it unacceptable that agreements reached as to how the Rock Proposal process will be managed have not been progressed, specifically no communications plan, no public meeting, no consultation on scope of independent analysis. The situation, which had once shown promise of ‘trust in the community’ has now reached a position of appearing discourteous and patronising.
The members of the Tettenhall Community Forum, which led feedback into the council proposals from Dec 2023, and from feedback requested of the larger community; feel that the council is "Losing Trust In The Community" and have asked to see that both the petition response and WCC Rock Proposal process are immediately improved by an urgent intervention by Council Leadership