See No Evil

Wood Sorrel in Strawberry Lee Plantation

A senior manager with Parks and Woodland at the recent Scrutiny Meeting told councillors that SWT had been good for Blacka Moor because they had been able to access more money to manage the site in a way that the council could not. This is simply tosh. His own director knows it to be nonsense. The funds he referred to could have been available to the council as confirmed by the Heritage Lottery Fund. Officers say things in meetings with councillors and the public which they know are simply wrong because nobody has the guts to challenge. Privately they tell a different story. And has this officer actually looked at the mess that SWT makes of every task it performs on Blacka? How do they get away with this? Is the whole council and all its officers also part of an overwhelming culture of deception? And does nobody fight against this because they are all equally culpable?