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Through the Information Commission Looking Glass

Vexatious Posted on Sat, December 05, 2015 16:49:21

Upper Tribunal (Information Rights)

Urgent Attention Judge Wright

Dear Sir

At the recent Video Link Hearing, I made a request to you for
my my case to be upgraded to include the other 5 (FIVE) PFI schools.

I have made this request in writing to the Upper Tribunal before and
been instructed to make an oral request at the hearing. This letter confirms my
request to upgrade from one (1) PFI school to six (6) PFI schools.

My original request dated 28th Feb 2008 was for six PFI
schools but downgraded to the ISCA College only because the DCC informed the UT
and the Information Commissioner’s Office that they did not hold the sought after data in PDF Format.

We now know that was a deliberate lie to pervert the course of justice by the Devon County Council.

At last week’s video hearing Judge Wright denied me from
upgrading my original request because he said, “I don’t know anything
about six PFI schools.”

It is clearly held in written records that:-

1. The ICO ordered my downgrade FOIA request from 6 to 1 school.

2. The ICO and DCC are on record the sought after data is/was available in electronic format.

You also informed me you did not know which Vexatious
Guidelines the DCC and ICO were reliant upon in this case. I wish to confirm
that the DCC & ICO are reliant upon the September 2014 Vexatious guidelines which
contains 37 pages.

In essence, they are appling 2014 vexatious guidelines to my
Feb 2008 retrospectively, which you accepted.

I fervently object to Vexatious guidelines postdated my FOIA
request in Feb 2008 by SEVEN (7) years.

The only Vexatious Guidelines which can be used on the
subject title case are the original 5 (Five points) vexatious guidelines.

Please acknowledge this letter.

With thanks

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield



Can you hear me Ben?

Ben Bradshaw MP Posted on Sat, December 05, 2015 16:35:08

From: alan dransfield
Sent: 05 December 2015 06:51
To: BRADSHAW Ben
Subject: WIND TURBINE SAFETY IN THE SOUTH WEST

Dear Mr Bradshaw MP

As you are aware ,I have raised this subject matter before
and I now wish my MP to write to the appropriate oversight authority because I
am of the opinion it is not a question of IF such incident will occur
again, BUT when.

Please see the attached photograph of the collapsed Wind
Turbine at Bradworthy Devon in 2013 and you can see the bolts (approx 40 in
total) snapped off at the base of the wind turbine tow

The Health and Safety Executive did not even visit the site and held no objection to
a new WT being erected on the same faulty bolts, which, quite frankly, beggars
belief.

As you can see, the Lightning Protection down conductor runs
directly under the WT tower which also beggars belief because these conductors
are bare copper tape, which means if a person or animal was standing on
this tape at the time of a lightning strike, they would surely be killed.

There is no justification whatsoever to install bare copper wire under the tower.

This particular collapse was blamed on poor design and poor
workmanship, which raises the question how did the HSE reach such a decision,
if they did not visit the site and why did they allow a new wind turbine to be erected
on faulty bolts?

I call upon my MP to write to the HSE and ask them:-

1.Why did you not visit the Bradworthy site?

2.Why did you allow the erection of a NEW WT on the same
faulty bolts?

3.Why is the HSE allowing bare copper Lightning Protection
to be used on WT Site?

4.What actions has the HSE taken to safeguard the general public
on such matters?

The only safe action on the Bradworthy WT collapse would
have been to totally demolish the concrete foundations and to start again.

I look forward to your response.

With thanks

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield