Archive has 95 results
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Bracknell Forest Council (19 017 904)
Statement Closed after initial enquiries Councillor conduct and standards 28-Feb-2020
Summary: The Ombudsman will not investigate Mr X’s complaint that a Councillor did not tell him they were going to object to his planning application. This is because the complaint is late and there is no good reason for the Ombudsman to disapply the law and investigate now. The substantive decision causing Mr X injustice was the Council’s refusal of planning permission, for which he had a right of appeal it would have been reasonable for him to use.
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Selby District Council (19 015 556)
Statement Closed after initial enquiries Councillor conduct and standards 27-Feb-2020
Summary: Mr X complains about the delay in the Council’s review of a decision on a complaint about a councillor. The Ombudsman will not investigate this complaint as we are unlikely to find fault in the Council’s actions and an investigation is unlikely to lead to a different outcome.
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Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council (19 003 667)
Statement Not upheld Councillor conduct and standards 26-Feb-2020
Summary: Mr B complains that councillors did not follow proper procedures when deciding his planning application. He says that as a result the building works were delayed. There was no fault in the Council’s consideration of Mr B’s complaint.
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Cheshire West & Chester Council (19 018 509)
Statement Closed after initial enquiries Councillor conduct and standards 22-Feb-2020
Summary: The Ombudsman cannot investigate Mr X’s complaint about the way he has been treated in his role as a councillor and how the Council considered his complaint about this. Mr X does not complain as a member of the public and so the complaint is outside the Ombudsman’s legal remit.
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Copeland Borough Council (19 018 785)
Statement Closed after initial enquiries Councillor conduct and standards 22-Feb-2020
Summary: The Ombudsman cannot investigate Mr X’s complaint about how the Council considered complaints made about his conduct as a councillor. Mr X does not complain as a member of the public and so the complaint is outside the Ombudsman’s legal remit.
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Statement Closed after initial enquiries Councillor conduct and standards 21-Feb-2020
Summary: Mr X is unhappy about the Council’s consideration of his complaint that a member of an inshore fishery authority gave misleading information to the public about threats to the local fish stocks. The Ombudsman cannot investigate, as this impacts all or most of the people in the Council’s area.
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North East Lincolnshire Council (19 016 540)
Statement Closed after initial enquiries Councillor conduct and standards 19-Feb-2020
Summary: The Ombudsman will not investigate Mr B’s complaint about the Council’s handling of a parish council standards matter because there is not enough evidence of fault causing unremedied injustice to warrant an investigation.
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South Cambridgeshire District Council (19 015 986)
Statement Closed after initial enquiries Councillor conduct and standards 19-Feb-2020
Summary: Mr X complains about the conduct of a Councillor and that the Council has dealt with him as an unreasonable and unreasonably persistent complainant. The Ombudsman will not investigate this complaint because it is unlikely we would find fault by the Council causing significant direct personal injustice to Mr X.
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Wealden District Council (19 016 144)
Statement Closed after initial enquiries Councillor conduct and standards 19-Feb-2020
Summary: The Ombudsman will not investigate how the Council dealt with Mr X’s complaint about the conduct of a councillor. This is because Mr X is not caused significant injustice from his complaint.
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Harrogate Borough Council (19 014 994)
Statement Closed after initial enquiries Councillor conduct and standards 18-Feb-2020
Summary: Mr X complains that a councillor has an interest in a planning application and should not have voted on the proposal. The Ombudsman will not investigate this matter as there is insufficient evidence of fault by the Council causing injustice to Mr X.