| Topic: | Get ready to start fighting to save your local park. | Forum Home |
| Posted by: | Vanessa Smith | |
| Date/Time: | 20/07/17 13:35:00 |
| At a council cabinet meeting on 11th July there was an agenda item 14, REG 525 Parks Transformation https://democraticservices.hounslow.gov.uk/documents/g9860/Public%20reports%20pack%20Tuesday%2011-Jul-2017%2018.00%20Cabinet.pdf?T=10 If you scroll down to the pages relating to this item it says "Document is Restricted" In the decisions paper https://democraticservices.hounslow.gov.uk/documents/g9860/Decisions%20Tuesday%2011-Jul-2017%2018.00%20Cabinet.pdf?T=2 it says that the recommendations in the report were approved. What recommendations? Clearly the public isn't supposed to know. The explanation for the exemption is; By Virtue of Paragraph 3 Information relating to the financial or business affairs of any particular person (including the authority holding that information) There have been rumours that parks management is to be handed over to Lampton 360 a set of companies set up by the council whose main aim is to develop property, they are also now running the waste contract. The suggestion being made is that is that maintenance is "coming back in house". Lampton 360 is a series of private companies and if the "business affairs" justification can be used to hide what it is doing, there are serious concerns about transparency and accountability. Where are our local councillors? What have they been doing to ensure there is proper consultation, scrutiny and debate before our parks are handed over to Lampton 360? Can any of our councillors throw any light on this mysterious agenda item? |