Lion Farm - Eling & Britton Take The P*ss!

Steve "The Milkman" Eling - who somehow "missed" all the fraud going on at Sandwell (aka "Sadwell") Council whilst maintaining a tight grip on the purse strings "lol" - claimed he was going to overhaul the Freedom of Information "system" which has been grossly abused by Chief Executive "lol" Jan Britton's bent paid service for many years. Judge for yourself whether that was just another Eling lie from the recent pisspoor response to my very important FOI on what appears to be a major fraudulent deal involving Lion Farm Fields......

For background please see:

http://thesandwellskidder.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/lion-farm-fields-major-fraud.html

The Skidder was on site this weekend and spoke to a number of local residents and businesses and he has also spoken to users of the fields.

Local insisted that this bent deal had all died a death and were incredulous when I told them Sandwell Labour are trying to force this through and that the Cabinet - via Tom Watson puppet Cllr Moore - pushed the deal onwards in November. (It has been hidden. of course, by Director in charge Alison Knight and Paul Moore under the spurious title "Junction 2 Regeneration". Incidentally Knight - presumably no relation to Knight Adams - only joined SMBC in September and this may be a test of her mettle whether she can force this bent deal through.)

Control freak Eling is, of course, personally involved in all this and has told users they have to get off the pitches at the end of the season. He said two pitches could be used to replace the 12 here at Londonderry Fields but this was clearly another of his little fibs as that is now to be used for the multi-million pound vanity project that is the swimming pool!

SMBC have now - several years after the event - disclosed the secret Cabinet Report for the original decision which confirms that Cllr Hussains friend Mr Knight Adams, the property developer, was mysteriously given sole rights to build on green space with all other competition locked-out. Knight Adams had, of course, bought a property off Cllr Hussain's son for £470,000 which the son had only paid £85,000 for but that is, no doubt, entirely coincidental!

The suspicion here is that Knight Adams has the corrupt Labour Council by the short and curlies and so they are desperate to force this through against the wishes of locals just to save face.

You can see how coy SMBC are being about this stinking deal by the pathetic answers in the Freedom of Information Request here. The same link will also take you to the original "secret" 2011 report.

https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/lion_farm_playing_fields

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