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Email sent – 03 April 2015 19:14

Dear Mr Bradshaw

Please see the attached Project Agreement between Norfolk Property Service
(NPS) and the Devon County Council (DCC).

I am of the opinion that the attached document is not a legal document and
in breach of EU contract law. It has been pushed through under Teckal and in my
opinion is nothing but a scam and a tool to assist the passage of fraud and
theft of public funds and in particular PFI capital funds.

No wonder the DCC have placed me on a lifetime email ban and refused to
release this document under the FOIA 2000.

This Project Agreement is for a fifteen (15) year period to provide multi disciplinary property consultants. A very impressive title indeed.

However, the Project Agreement does not have any independent transparency, accountability or security and there are no fiscal ringfences.

At this juncture, Carrillion are the maintenance contractors for the Devon
Schools and NPS are the glorified architects.

The service specification runs from 1st April 07 (April Fool’s joke) to 31st Jan 08. Therefore, this contract agreement has expired.

The service agreement calls or a 5 year review from the DCC, which has not
been carried out.

This agreement refers to The Asset Management Plan which at best is a joke
and at worst, a design to deceive. The Project Asset Management Plan at the DCC
and in particular the Devon Schools is non-existent.

I call upon my MP to write to the Minister of Education and the Treasury
Minister to call for a public Iiquiry into the DCC/NPS Project Agreement as attached.

I have reason to believe this scam is active nationwide and not just
isolated to Devon.

For your urgent action and files.

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield

Email sent – 04 April 2015 06:29

Dear Mr Bradshaw

Please see the attached report from the Devon County Council regarding weather impact and, in
particular, I ask you to do a search of the document ref lightning.

The report suggests that the DCC is fully aware of the impact and dangers of thunderstorms and lightning strikes, which over the last decade, have become
a serious hazard.

It would therefore be apparent to any fair minded person that the DCC/ECC
would take lightning very seriously and indeed treat it as a life threatening danger.

As you are aware, the DCC does not take lightning seriously, ditto for the
City Council, RDE -NH Trust, John Lewis, Exeter Uni, Exeter Chiefs, Devon Fire
Authority etc.

For your information,action and files.

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield

Email sent – 04 April 2015 07:33

Dear Mr Bradshaw

Please see the BBC URL link which shows the Devon County Council have used over 240
compromise agreement aka gagging orders.

This press report also claims you were very concerned about the use of
such agreements.

What did you actually do about it, Mr Bradshaw…?

In the event you get selected as MP for Exeter again …. you need
to kick some doors down at the DCC and demand some answers to your (my)
questions.

These compromised agreements are little short of gagging orders.

The fraudulent contract between the DCC and NPS is beginning to make sense now. The main aim of the DCC/NPS “Project Agreement” is to cut down the existing
DCC staff to a bare minimum, bring in a management team, treat the general public as a mushroom farm ,i.e keep them in the dark and feed them
b******t.

For you information, action and files.

With thanks

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-24583513

Email sent – 28 March 2015 21:43

Dear Mr Bradshaw

Please see the response from the Devon County Council ref my latest 4 Freedom Of Information requests and I
must say I am very impressed at their speedy response.

I would prophetise the DCC will refuse these requests under section 14/1
vexatious exemptions.

Time will tell.

For your information and files.

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield

Email sent – 28 March 2015 08:41

Dear Mr Bradshaw

Further to my earlier complaints about the Micky Mouse flood prevention plans, I have also now learnt there is an additional footbridge planned to
connect the allotments to the existing footpath in phase 2, which beggars
belief.

There is absolutely no need for an extra pedestrian bridge which will no
doubt cost another £100k minimum.

The existing flood relief channel will be converted in a full tidal river
but there doesn’t appear to be be any boating/mooring facilities along this new
stretch, which will present serious health and safety issues for boating visitors. There
will also be no ambulance access to the current allotments. Indeed, there will
be no vehicular access to the allotments.

Has this been considered?

Yours etc

Alan M Dransfield

Email sent – 27 March 2015 07:56

Dear Mr Bradshaw

I am sure you are aware that the new £30million flood defence works
schedule was in yesterday’s Express and Echo along with photos of before and
Aater the works.

Quite frankly, the after photographs confirm my fears that the environmental and Devon County C ouncil engineers don’t know what they are doing and under the
current plans it will not prevent floods – in particular:-

1. The photograph of the quay outside the pizza restaurant shows a flood fate from the building line to the river. This is a complete waste of time because if
the river “backs up” it will flood all the premises on the Quay.

2. At the Terra Plaza they propose a new wall approx 5 metres from the existing
wall from the Bar Venizia to the existing warehouse, which means the block of houses/flats on Haven Bank will be flooded. It would have been more practical
and cheaper to raise existing wall by 500 mm from the Wellcome Cafe to the
Exebridges. It will also result in the new climbing centre being flooded.

3. They propose to raise the footpath from the Harvester Pub for 100 metres eastward, which would leave all the premises on Haven Banks and westwards
vulnerable.

4. The houses near Clipper Quay have not been considered for
protection.

I hope the new flood works on Phase Two are superior than Phase One, which
has seen huge holes in the existing wall repaired with sandbags, which beggars
belief. In particular, the wall opposite the Climbing Tower has been repaired
in a manner of a “cowboy builder”. Photographs of this have been sent to you
recently. Sandbags are OK for temporary repairs and flood prevention, but I would not
consider sandbags as a permanent repair.

Could I suggest/recommend meeting you with these so called “engineers” to
discuss my concerns and fears?

God only knows what their proposals are for Cowley Bridge and the Mill on
the Exe, but I have seen enough of their proposals around the Quay and Haven
Banks to make me thankful I live on the 3rd floor.

With thanks

Yours sincerely

Alan M Dransfield

Email sent – 27 March 2015 08:52

INFORMATION COMMISSIONER OFFICE

Dear Sir

Under the protection of the FOIA 2000,please provide me with the following
information.

1. The full legal costs incurred by the ICO defending the Prince Charles case, which concluded yesterday in the Supreme Court.

2. All costs include legal fees for QC, travel, accommodation, food etc.

3. Copies of Meta Data on this case, ncluding emails and personal notes
from case officers

With thanks

Alan M Dransfield