Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Horse Play in Isleworth? | |
Posted by: | Phil Andrews | |
Date/Time: | 11/02/15 18:39:00 |
I don't know the exact figures involved but the allotment owners charge x amount per car, there are y spaces available and the car park is always full, so the amount raised is the same each time. The only way anybody could be pocketing anything would be (a) if they received a tip, or (b) if every member of the allotment society was in it together. If (a) that is between them, the customer and the Inland Revenue. If (b) then the proceeds would be spread so thinly it would render the whole exercise fairly pointless. The issue which has arisen now was initially raised during my tenure as a ward councillor for Isleworth. I told the senior officer at the time that the allotment group was a valued asset within our community and that he should get off their case, which he promptly did. Presumably our present ward councillors will do the same? From where I'm sitting this is less about anything else and more about an administration throwing its weight around and trying to make life difficult for a thriving community operation which it doesn't control. Rather than concerning ourselves with whether a few pounds may or may not be due to the Inland Revenue, maybe it would more useful to ask why the London Borough of Hounslow is proposing to spend nearly £70k per year of local taxpayers' money on two new Community Engagement officers when its policy is clearly to not engage with the community. |