Alan Dransfield's Blog

Email sent – Wed 09/12/2015 05:35

Dear Mr Bradshaw

A wind turbine located on the A30 down near Redruth with a
total clearance between the Petrol Station of less than 100 mts.

I appreciate it is outside your remit, but even you can surely
see the possible catastrophecan’t you?.

Yours etc

Dransfield

Email sent – Wed 09/12/2015 06:04

Dear Mr Bradshaw

I am sure you will recognise this photograph, which is at
the Sandy Park Rugby Stadium, home to the Exeter Chiefs. This photo was taken
last year after the recent stadium improvements.

As you are well aware, I am on record claiming the Sandy Park
and the Pedestrian Bridge are lightning deathtraps and both are unsafe &
unfit for purpose.

This photograph proves without doubt the Sandy Park Stadium
is non compliant to BS/EN 62305 Lightning Protection System (LPS)
Requirements.

The pole which you can see is one of the 4 floodlight towers and is less than 500mm from the Main Stand has not been provisioned
with adequate LPS and in particular potential ground rise and overflash from the pole to stadium and vice versa.

It is also very clear from the photograph that theroof material is a PVC or plastic material to allow optimum
light. However, the stadium design required the roof to be of Metal/Aluminum – to
be used in lieu of Lightning Finals.

May I suggest you forward this photograph to a lightning consultant and ask for a second opinion please? In the event you have no access
to such expertise, I can recommend one of the World’s finest lightning protection consultants, i.e. Mr Ernest NR Duckworth who is based in the
USA and hence maintains independence.

For your information,action and files

With thanks.

Alan M Dransfield

Email sent – Wed 09/12/2015 07:07

Dear Mr Bradshaw

Earlier this year a subcontractor working for Balfour Beatty
died when he fell from the roof during his work on Sun 28th June 2015. The Health and Safety Executive declared this incident did not come under their remit because the Olympic
Stadium was not classed as a work site. The Principle Contractor is/was Balfour
Beatty and I am suspicious of any such matters on their sites.

Have the HSE gone mad and lost what little sanity they had?

Of course the Olympic Stadium IS/WAS a building site, hence,
the HSE held clear jurisdiction.

I appreciate this is outside your remit but I am unable to
contact the HSE owing to my lifetime email ban. Hence, I call upon my MP to
write to the relevant oversight authority and ask for an explanation why the
HSE appear to have been criminal negligent.

With thanks

Yours etc

Alan M Dransfield

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

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

From: alan dransfield
Sent: 26 November 2015 07:12
To: Richard Bailey
Cc: BRADSHAW Ben; christopher.graham@ico.org.uk;
graham.smith@ico.org.uk
Subject: FOIA Request ref your two Mr Smith the Deputy IC.

Dear Mr Bailey

Polite follow up please to my FOIA request for all the
available information on the termination of employment of Graham Frank Smith and David Smith,
the two deputy Information Commissioners

If they resigned, please provide me with a copy of their
resignation letter. If they were terminated, please provide me with copies of
their termination letters, reasons etc. Please provide me with copies of all
internal memos, emails etc related to the departure of the two Smith’s from the
ICO.

Could it be the Smiths are leaving a sinking ship?

This matter is in the public interest so please do not
refuse my request under the old Vexatious chestnut.

You have not yet offered me a reasonable explanation how I
am supposed to submit a review request before the ICO issues an official
Decision Notice.

With thanks

Your etc

Alan M Dransfield

Email sent – 21/11/2015 06:58

Dear Mr Bradshaw

As you are aware, I have raised this question several times
before and you have failed to acknowledge my concerns.

It is not a question of IF there are repeated collapses of wind turbines nationwide in a similar manner to the two collapsed WT’s in the
South West a couple of years ago, it is more a question of WHEN they will
collapse.

You will recall the collapsed WT in Bradworthy was
replaced using the same foundation anchor bolts and the Health and Safety Executive did not even
visit the site. Such actions are not only willfully negligent, they beggar
belief.

I fervently believe there is a wider conspiracy between local authorities nationwide and the HSE, who are both failing their fiduciary
duty of care to check Risk Assessment and Method Statements ref the design and
construction of wind turbines. I also believe there is tangible evidence
that a very similar dangerous situation is apparent with the large motorway luminary columns and directional signs and stadium floodlights.

I call upon my MP to write to the Secretary of State in
charge of the HSE and Minster of Transport seeking their assurance the highest
safety standards are in place on this matter.

Thus far, there have been no serious injury or deaths due to
collapsing WT but such miracles cannot continue and its only a matter of time
before we witness a catastrophe.

With thanks

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield