Save Pollok Park today launched a formal complaint of
maladministration against Glasgow City Council over the recently
abandoned development of a Go Ape adventure course in Pollok Park
We believe the way this project was handled by different Council
service departments amounts to incompetence and therefore falls within
the definition of maladministration.
We contend the Council failed to take full account of the legal issues
surrounding common good status despite public discussion of the issues
from 2004 onwards, a formal letter about accounting for common good
assets to the Director of Finance in March 2007 from the Scottish
Executive* and subsequent warnings from concerned citizens.
We also understand the council’s refusal to detail its list of common
good assets is subject of an ongoing appeal to the Scottish
Information Commissioner (ref 200900776).
The failure by you to properly consider all the relevant issues has
resulted in unnecessary expenditure of taxpayers’ funds as represented
by staff time and out-of-pocket expenses.
Under the Freedom of Information Scotland Act we seek a full
disclosure of correspondence and details of expenditure dedicated to
this project detailed on a monthly basis from the date of the adoption
of the Parks & Open Spaces Strategic Best Value Review and
Implementation Plan in 2005 to the decision of Adventure Forest Ltd in
July 2009 to abandon the project.
Bill Fraser
Save Pollok Park <http://www.savepollokpark.com/>
Tel: 0141-424 0447
Mob: 07775 832 461
Fax: 0141-626 4235
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