The Gower Tip cover up works commence

 

It has been some time since I wrote about this satellite waste dump of Albright and Wilson connected to The Birmingham Canal navigations in the same way that rattlechain lagoon received waste originally by boat.

In early 2022, following a disgraceful planning situation, Sandwell council once again rolled over for this Oldbury polluter as they always have in planning matters giving them the opportunity to claim some form of belated “remediation” over two decades after the shit from Oldbury had basically mothballed the site. I am still mystified why they are NOW keen on doing something with this land, and still speculate that they intend to sell it off for housing, though in every communication they have ever put out, and below here are the screenshots, they claim that this is not their intention.

not a possibility- but why is the question?

The website they set up and the pre cursor PR bullshit they will put out is a direct reaction to the truth of the matter that I have investigated and put on this website for local residents to read, AND NOTHING ELSE. Like with the 2013 cover up works at Rattlechain, they also set up a website, and that has now apparently mysteriously disappeared, where they again stated that they had no intention of using the lagoon for housing but these were “improvement works”- so I wonder if they have changed their minds on that one, or are just keen to hide what they claim to have done on their white phosphorus contaminated shit hole previously?

DC/21/66208 | Proposed remediation works including re-profiling of site, installing cap above underlying waste material to uplift site by 1.4m, with new sub-surface cut off boundary wall along eastern boundary and landscaping. | Land Adjacent Former Sportsground (The Gower Tip) Lower City Road Tividale Oldbury.

This application was approved by delegation, to which the officer of the council denied the opportunity of any real scrutiny of being put before the planning committee. It was a stitch up in that three objections HAD been received to qualify for that, and yet this was by passed with some rolling dialogue between the Canal and Rivers Trust and the council.

The conditions attached to this matter gave the company, whatever they call themselves now for this site as a holdings company, three years from the date to begin the work. With just days to go, it now suddenly appears that “Rhodia” have submitted more detail to discharge the conditions and begin the spin show cover up. WHY HAS IT TAKEN THEM THIS LONG?

Machines felling trees at Gower Tip February 2025

I had dissected the bullshit lies of Rhodia/Solvay and their agents in this post going over the documents and also asking many unanswered questions. I also pointed this out to the planning officer, CARL MERCER in objection, as well as emailing him, as well as sending the same email to the contaminated land officer for Sandwell, and an individual at The Environment Agency who deals with sites such as The Gower Tip. NONE OF THEM BOTHERED TO REPLY OR ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. 

There has been another chainsaw massacre to rival that that we have seen on the adjacent Duport/”rattlechain tip” just down the road.

 

The view from George Wood Avenue

We see some of the old familiar hall marks of Albright and Wilson/Rhodia lurking around above the surface.

In terms of the documents let’s go through them, in reference to the decision notice conditions listed below which Rhodia/Solvay now wish to be discharged- if ever there was an apt pun to describe such a site. 😆

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DOC/25/00855|Proposed discharge of conditions 3a, 3b, 4a and 4b of planning permission DC/21/66208.|Land Adjacent Former Sportsground (The Gower Tip) Lower City Road Tividale Oldbury

The application for this is shown below. It is noted that this is made by the consultancy ERM and not Rhodia/Solvay and that Carl Mercer of SMBC advised them to submit this form.

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A noise management survey has been submitted in Line with 3a and 3b. This is of course entirely theoretical and it will be left to local affected residents to complain about such matters. With work between 8am to 6pm allowed, good luck if you are a night worker.

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The main thrust of conditions 4a and 4b are once again theoretical with little regard for specific site contaminants and issues, which is very convenient in terms of avoiding mentioning the real reason for these pointless works.

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“Project construction is expected to commence in 2025 and last three years” !!!

What the hell does this even mean? Why would it take three years to supposedly stop rainwater getting into existing site conditions? Are they seriously not expecting anyone to raise eyebrows at this statement and length of time if this is some routine site maintenance job? 

“The purpose of the CEMP is:
• To provide a mechanism for ensuring that measures to mitigate potentially adverse
environmental impacts are implemented;

WHAT ARE THESE POTENTIALLY ADVERSE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS, AND IS IT NOT A BIT LATE IN THE DAY TO BE ADDRESSING THESE, 21 FUCKING YEARS AFTER THEY WERE GIVEN THE GREEN LIGHT TO SURRENDER THE LICENCE? 

To ensure that standards of good construction practice are adopted;
• To provide a framework for mitigating impacts that may be unforeseen or unidentified until construction is underway;

OH HOW WONDERFUL, THEY DO NOT EVEN APPEAR TO KNOW WHAT IS UNFORSEEN ON A SITE THAT HAD RADIOACTIVE MATERIAL BURIED WITHIN IT ACCORDING TO THE ORIGINAL SITE LICENCE APPLICATION. THERE DOES NOT APPEAR TO BE ANY IDENTIFIED CHEMICALS WITHIN THIS CEMP. 

• To provide assurance to third parties that their requirements with respect to environmental performance will be met; and
• To provide a framework for compliance auditing and inspection to enable Solvay to be
assured that its aims with respect to environmental performance during construction are being met by the contractor”

OF COURSE, WE GET SOLVAY AS THE CLIENT IN THIS REPORT, AND YET RHODIA REMAIN ON THE NOTICES, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOW CALLED “SYENSCO”. CONFUSED? YES VERY. 

“3.11 PROTECTION OF WATER RESOURCES
Contractors will be required to take all necessary precautions to prevent the pollution of
controlled waters. Solvay will develop, in consultation with the EA, its advisors and relevant contractors, a site water management and drainage procedure for contractors setting out the measures to be implemented to control of the relevant construction activities. “

OH I’LL BE ASKING TO SEE THAT ONE. 

the risk assessment is not site specific to the chemicals buried beneath the surface. It is a standard checklist and could apply to any building site, where at least in that regard you know what the end purpose will be- with this you don’t.

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I can only warn residents living close to this site to keep detailed records of nuisance and airborne dusts arising from this site whenever works start and a daily log of events. Do not rely on a company that  failed over decades to protect its own employees, yet alone the environment and public health whist dumping waste that they now want to cover up. 

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Dust and not so good vibrations

 

Back in 1990 when Lineker and Gazza were “expressing themselves” in Italia 90, in Tividale a different type of game was starting to unfold. Messrs Hurst and Hurst were carving up land on a former tip on tips with heavy machinery that would remain on this pitch for over a decade. And no I’m not talking about Geoff! Extra time to complete the work would be a very real prospect, but never it appears, any penalties for their frequent foul activities. 😆

Not so much Three lions on a shirt, as three giant sand castles! 😆

Many years of dirt, never stopped them scheming……

 

Residents in the then built part of the estate Gladstone Drive, Law Close and Temple Way were on the front line of the marauders from Coneygree Road and those in the first street in particular living closest were regularly affected by dust storms and damaging operations as The Sandwell Evening Mail of 20th July 1990 points out.

I have chosen to redact the names of the couple, though I know they no longer live in this street, having escaped after the work had finally finished. At this point in time, Sandwell council appear to have at least been sympathetic to the concerns of issues surrounding cracks appearing in and around the properties in question, though this alliance would swiftly change!

The diggers were working inches away from the houses, and despite requests to stop, The Hursts could not have given a shit. You can evidently see this in correspondence of the time where the supercilious duo always know better than people whose jobs it was to uphold some type of rules and regulations, schemes and planning and building controls.

As for The Black Country Development Corporation, there was never a more bent vehicle than this in operation at this time. The 12th man on the pitch- the ref, were always making controversial decisions in favour of this company and its activities at this place. Not so good vibrations for those in Gladstone Drive.

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Landfill Homes- an ugly blank canvas for fiction writers

 

CAN YOU SPOT WHERE YOUR HOUSE WAS BUILT? 

How it started……

How it’s going

The area bordering three sections of canal and The Tipton and Dudley Road was once an agricultural marsh land punctuated only by The Rattlechain brickworks. When the crooked conman Sydney Sheldon then progressively started to sell off pieces of this land for use as tips it became a free for all and often illegal bonanza for fly by night tatter and tipper scum to soil.

Anyone researching the history of The Temple Way estate as I have can see from the former “what’s in your backyard ” image from the environment agency website as to the scale of landfill operations that took place. Tips on top of tips, waste materials spread, picked up then spread again over layers of foundry sand and scooped up by machinery and then “landscaped” like a mong with a maulstick would and blended into a grandiose phoney “reclamation” painting of dubious fakery.

Unfortunately, as I have already briefed, the EA have removed much of the information as to what’s in your backyard, to the point where this deliberate obfuscation is obviously aimed at allowing the construction/ housing development industry a free pass to make up lies about the former use of land and what was buried there, or to not go into the finer detail of what may be found there lurking beneath.

Under The Town and Country Planning (General Development Procedure) Order 1995, Local Planning Authorities may consult with the Environment Agency about all applications they receive to develop land within 250 metres of landfill sites.

Thankfully websites like this one have preserved the missing information and retrieved it before it was totally shredded from view. The annotated numbers on the names of historic landfill tips correspond to the licence numbers they were given, and so here are links on this website which you can view to see what was tipped there during the life of these licences. Some of course predated site licensing, so anything went, including hazardous wastes and this should be further caveated in that this was a time when bribing corrupt officials to look the other way was rife.

Much of this landscape was soiled by The Hurst family and their operations as either foundry sand dumpers in their own right- Birlee Industrial and Mintworth et al, as well as contractors for the disgusting Duport Group. Their fingerprints and provenance are all over this canvas, so don’t let anyone fool you into thinking otherwise, as it can be proven.

Going clockwise but also chronologically to explain further tips on tips. I think it is fair to say that this painting would not win the Turner prize for either fine art or abstract but maybe The Booker prize for what certain “environmental consultants” have written about the tips ever since to disguise what was dumped there!

LONDON WORKS STEEL SITE SL130

RATTLECHAIN LAGOON SL31

Of course, the former Tividale sewage works were a shit tip in their own right, described as “a crap site for residential” by a senior planner at Sandwell council.

BRADES HALL FARM SL261

ROSE LANE BIRLEE INDUSTRIAL LIMITED SL303

ROSE LANE BIRLEE INDUSTRIAL LIMITED SL113

DUPORT’S TIP SL129

 “RATTLECHAIN TIP”  SL947

A POINT OF ORDER CONCERNING “BROWNFIELD LAND”

Sandwell council made a false statement within their recent highly dubious press release written as though on behalf of the scum from The Mill and DSM demolition. The first ten words of their statement are a fundamental misunderstanding of Government policy and terms of reference, but it perhaps comes as no surprise as we have seen as to how the buffoons in planning policy could not even identify one of their own SINC/NATURE RESERVE SITES AS SUCH in a planning application.

“Rattlechain Tip in Tividale Oldbury is a privately owned brownfield site……”

“Brownfield land” or land defined as “previously developed land” has a specific meaning as defined by The National Planning Policy Framework- the published guidance dealing with planning issues and how arguments about suitability for use etc are decided. You can see a screenshot of the link below.

National Planning Policy Framework – Annex 2: Glossary – Guidance – GOV.UK

This confirms that “brownfield land” EXCLUDES “LAND THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPED FOR MINERALS EXTRACTION OR WASTE DISPOSAL BY LANDFILL WHERE PROVISION FOR RESTORATION HAS BEEN MADE THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS”. 

The lagoon , a still hazardous waste site under permit was a quarry site for the extraction of Etruria marl for brick making, as was Sheldon’s original pit that became the main hole for the Duport’s Tip. After that, the entire picture above including the former “rattlechain Tip” the council name it as confirms that this land is entirely excluded from the definition of “brownfield land” because ALL OF IT HAS BEEN USED FOR WASTE DISPOSAL LANDFILL, ALSO HAVING “RESTORATION” IN THE FORM OF PLANNING CONDITIONS- IRONICALLY LIKE PLANTING TREES. IT HAS ALSO “LAND THAT WAS PREVIOUSLY DEVELOPED , BUT WHERE THE REMAINS OF THE PERMANENT STRUCTURE (BRICKWORKS AND PITS) HAVE BLENDED INTO THE LANDSCPAE IN THE PROCESS OF TIME.”

Furthermore, in planning terms, as set out in the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development)(England) Order 2015 and previous legislation, quarries are defined as ‘sui generis’. In simple terms this means that they do not fall in any defined use class including those that cover industry. Therefore, in law, the land was not previously industrial land. 

The council therefore, and not for the first time are describing land under the political “brownfield first” policy banner out of the cracks of their arse. 
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UNSUITABLE SITES AND FRAUDULENT DEVELOPERS
Both locally and nationally, there are some very worrying cases where houses have been built on unsuitable land that has caused serious issues, as well as occasions where the developers have gone AWOL. In some of these cases tax payers money has been used shamefully to create these “much needed homes” this Government keep banging on about. 
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In Dudley, two sites in Maple Road and Bull Street for example have been mothballed, with the latter having sunken foundations where the kerbs have not been completed and people have moved into shambolic conditions where sink holes have opened up. 
Barratt homes of course are renowned liars and con artists fleecing people of their hard earned cash. 
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Some developers are scamming applications and not following legally signed agreements. 
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BOTTOM LINE- DO NOT TRUST HOUSING DEVELOPERS WITH PUBLIC CASH. 
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THE ALTERNATIVE PAINTING

A pleasant alternative to the use of these tips for residential use was Sheepwash of course. If only that early 1980’s vision could be rekindled by politicians with ambitious interests in nature and wildlife. A place where “happy little trees” grow without fear of being axed.

This is Art by Riley Cooper | Tiger Rant

 

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We’ve been watching you- “Rattlechain Redevelopments Limited”

WLBRL INVESTIGATION- A COMPLEX WEB OF DIRTY BUSINESS DEALS

For some time, I have been aware and monitoring two companies by the name of “Rattlechain Redevelopments Ltd” and “Coneygre Redevelopments Limited”– these directly relate to land interests off site of Rattlechain lagoon- The former Duport’s Tip and surrounding East of Rose Lane, and also the land off the Coneygree Road open space in Tipton- both a part of the ludicrous “garden city” proposals in the “Dudley Port Supplementary Planning” Document and now “The Sandwell Local Plan”.

These two sites are directly linked in that they were for a substantial period used as foundry sand graveyards by the company “Mintworth” , formerly Birlee Industrial Ltd, and often by many other aliases by The Hurst family.

Mintworth were responsible for the former Severn Trent Water sewage works development, now Callaghan and Wilson Drives and the unfolding “misery” of a ten year operation that was supposedly only going to last two.

It is apparent that for many years, the principal driver of Mintworth in all its forms was John S Hurst, not to be confused with his Son, John L J Hurst, or JH Jnr.  Unfortunately, The Black Country Development Corporation officers were unable to see through the sandcastle piles in the early 1990’s with the grand proposals for the sewage works and surrounding land. Indeed the bogus Cremer and Warner report conducted at Rattlechain lagoon was devised because it was coveted as a major dumping pit for extra profit. Thank God this never transpired because the chemical waste is totally incompatible with infilling it with foundry sand, and this will never change. Closed shop meetings not involving any residential input were orchestrated from Black Country House, the lair of the BCDC.

On gaining planning permission, via a dubious appeal where the adjoining “bad use neighbour” lagoon was the main reason for Sandwell Council’s original refusal, Mintworth effectively vanished off the scene, except for a metal tatting exercise, leaving behind them a present to the local community of “private open space”- vast over tipped piles of foundry sand  that later greened over, bizarrely populated by pampas grass and stunted Christmas Trees. Some areas however did produce mature trees leaving the site green and rewilded- something the Hurst’s never planned during their tatting exercises on the site.

Mintworth did however re-emerge like a phoenix (or a foundry sand dragon from its own dust), at the Sandwell Site Allocations Delivery Plan Document , (SSADPD), in 2011 with consultants RPS putting forward housing proposals, but not apparently as owners.  😆

A DUBIOUS “OFFSHORE” OWNERSHIP

The transition of some of this land for apparently peanuts is shown in four land registry documents where the titles appear to have been transferred to “Denver Limited “ registered in Jersey on 2/2/2006. the amount paid for these titles is a token joke, without a doubt at £5,000 a pop.

One should be reminded of the EA statement about Mintworth Quays concerning the site licence in documents associated with the Sandwell site allocations delivery plan proposals. “The permit for the Rattlechain Tip no longer exists. The permit holder, Mintworth Quays Ltd, was dissolved on 22-Mar-2007 and the permit disappeared with the Company.”Nice timing.  😉

WR23942 Land and buildings lying to the North of Dudley Road East Rowley Regis Retrieved 2nd AUG 2017

 

WM451825   part of Tividale water Reclamation works, Tividale. Retrieved 13th MAY 2019. 

WM168650     Land lying to the north east of Tipton Road, Tividale, Warley. Retrieved 13th MAY 2019

 

 

WM577588  Land on the North side of MacDonald Close , Temple Way Rowley Regis Retrieved 27th October 2020

N.B this title is also registered to “Denver Limited”, and by when apparently sold to “Rattlechain Redevelopments Limited” of Henley in Arden, was sold on  19th May 2020 with the other previously mentioned titles for a whopping £1.2 million. 

That land that had been sitting idle since Mintworth Quays abandoned it in 2007 has been a nice little earner for this Jersey Registered company hasn’t it, without them ever apparently having done a sausage on it since they acquired the sites in 2006 for so little?  😀

It is interesting to note the role here of a certain Manc law firm in handling the activities of the mysterious Denver as well as the other Mintworth site at Shidas Lane under the company  “Cleeve Investments Limited” also registered at the same address! . They appear to be quite active in dealing with offshore registered land ownerships in this part of the world via the old Ship Canal House.  😉

Nothing happened in many years since that allocation was presented in 2011. I am not sure what Mintworth have been doing for quite some time, but note they had a first notice of strike off at one point.

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Of course, myself and many residents of the Temple Way Estate and users of Sheepwash Local Nature Reserve organised a petition to stop the ludicrous “Garden City” proposals put forward in Sandwell council’s Dudley Port Supplementary Planning Document.

I would add that this opposition from residents and site users is still very much totally against any further development, or “redevelopment” or more accurately regurgitation of a stale old pipedream of a tatter and his son and moving around vast amounts of foundry sand to create a new misery by adding yet more under “stabilising” or “surcharging the mound”.  Pile of bollocks. Another petition has been handed in regards the latest Sandwell plan proposals and we shall see what the inspector makes of this in due course. 

The former Severn Trent sewage works were “a crap site for residential” according to Sandwell planning officer John Baylay

 

SEVERN STENCH

Severn Trent’s role in this affair is now beginning to emerge, and this serial environmental polluter and habitat wrecker appear to be still soiling the planning process where they enjoy a statutory consultee status. I have looked at how they sell off land formerly in the public ownership and land bank this HERE.

They do little to remediate land that their company contaminated with human excrement like that at Friar park and expect the tax payer to pick up the tab whilst their bloated fat cat CEO and shareholders cream off the state aid “clean up funds” in doing so. Indeed when the planning committee at the council looked minded to refuse the planning decision for the former Tividale sewage works, an individual from this company attempted to subvert the planning process demanding a meeting with the chief executive prior to the planning committee meeting. What a bloody cheek! I wonder WTF this had to do with them as a company or him as an individual when they had “sold” the land to Mintworth in 1988?  Was there a get out clause I wonder if development was refused or a nice fat personal bonus for closing the deal?

The letter below is evidence of what I have stated above from STW’s own position.

I put in an email request to CEO Liv Garfield on this transaction, also noting that a new mortgage charge had been filed under the company “Rattlechain Redevelopments Limited” dated 19th May 2020. 

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I received this reply from a Justin Bailey.

“ST Classification: LEGALLY PRIVILEGED

Good afternoon Mr Carroll,

I have been passed your email of 19th January to Liv Garfield in my role as Head of Property. This matter is historic and so it has taken a few days to research the facts.

I appreciate that you are passionate about the environment, which is to be applauded, and your investigations have led you to believe that Severn Trent are involved in or are in control of the future use of the site. It is not.

The land in question was sold by Severn Trent Water Authority (as was) in April 1988 and the terms of this sale were recorded in a contract for sale entered into in the same year with Mintworth Limited. Several onward sales of the land have occurred since.

The original sale contract from 1988 contained what is known as an ‘overage’ provision which is common practice in the property industry. It provides that if future changes in use of the land takes place, that Severn Trent is entitled to receive a share of any profit derived from that change of use. This right lasts for a period of 80 years.

The document you obtained from Land Registry is merely a subsequent purchaser, of part of the original land sold, entering into a deed to record a legal charge on their title concerning the overage provision in favour of Severt Trent. This is not a mortgage in the everyday use of the word and Severn Trent is not lending money to Rattlechain Developments and has no dealing with them.

As regards the future use of the site, Severn Trent are not involved.

Considering the above, I do not believe there is cause to correspond further on this matter.

Justin Bailey (He/Him)

Head of Property & Strategic Resource Options

Severn Trent Water Ltd”

This therefore confirms that Severn Trent still have a financial interest in this land gaining planning permission for yet more housing. They can attempt to divorce themselves from Rattlechain Redevelopments all they like, but overage means they stand to gain from any permission granted whilst they also remain a statutory consultee when any application arises. They will also of course merely feed new housing into their own badly managed old network which they will not update, only if water rate payers pay for it. This is a cycle of capitalist corruption and in this instance they should not be allowed the status of statutory consultee where their comments made in favour for development, or lack of them against stand to reward their own private purse. 

 

NEW NAME FOR OLD ROPE? 

This company were incorporated on 10th December 2018 just months after apparently buying the land titles and as evidenced transferring a “mortgage” with  Severn Trent via a charge on the land some time later.

There are two listed directors, a Patrick James Kelly and Desmond Noel Kelly, two Irish nationals whom I take to be brothers.

Together they have a string of directorships, mostly linked to the same service address.

The entity based at The Mill in Henley in Arden have also snapped up the other Mintworth Twin Peaks abandonment in Tipton in 2018 for £2 million. This site has an equally dubious planning history with the “reclamation” company, who also won a planning appeal against refusal from the council but also failed to ever do anything with the land, despite having the brass neck to apply for a time extension which has since now also passed. It was throughout the 1990’s associated with Rattlechain and the decanting of material from one tip to the other. Sandwell council and the Black Country Development Corporation were aware of transgressions and repeated residential complaints at both sites, and yet their officers looked the other way. Shame on them for their failure to protect residents rights.

The convenient name, like that for Rattlechain is based at the same address according to information from Companies House.

Another what appears to be parent group known as “Corbally Developments Limited” is also registered here too.

 

Having dug further into the background of these individuals , the source below gives interesting background as to the father of the Kelly family Patrick, not to be confused with the son Patrick who appears to take the middle name “Jim”. 

Kelly family sells DSM Demolition | Construction Enquirer News

“Patrick Kelly from Kildare set up P J Murray Haulage in the 1960’s. The Birmingham-based business evolved into DSM Demolition, which was managed day-to-day by his sons Jim, Des and John Kelly.”

I will look at the latter company below, but let us delve into the business affairs of father Pat and PJ Murray haulage Limited.

This was an era of illegal tipping which of course resulted in the deposit of poisonous wastes Act in 1972 after cyanide dumping hit the headlines. Much of this involved dodgy firms acting as waste carriers who bribed corrupt officials at tips to fly tip hazardous waste. Patrick Kelly Snr is revealed to be one such individual in the story from the 16th April 1981 Coventry Evening Telegraph. 

The figure of £2,660 pounds paid by Kelly to the West Midlands County Council tip operator in Solihull saw this individual jailed, and yet why was the briber able to get off scott free? This quango as we know were both incompetent and badly run so it comes as little surprise that crooks like Ekin were able to operate and I bet that this was just the tip of the waste tipping iceberg.

The Kelly bribes

 

P J Murray were in the news again in 1988 for dumping asbestos illegally.

9th July 1988 Sandwell Evening Mail

This saw the firm being taken to court by Hereford and Worcester County Council after asbestos waste was dumped on a farm in the county at an unlicenced site. We get a total joker from this company, ironically named “Rob” attempt to pass off the deadly chemical with a ludicrous explanation . Many such companies pretend to have some legitimate waste carrier demeanour but in reality are just a bunch of didicoys with a tipping truck.

And then the matter of price fixing and value for money with the tax payer being ripped off. The matter below was raised by Jeff Rooker MP, whom I must say as a former Labour MP I have learnt to have a great deal of respect for in that he raised pollution issues like this on a regular basis, particularly with the scum from Leigh Environmental in Walsall.

The 14th December 1988 Birmingham News raised concerns about the soaring costs associated with the flagship convention centre  ICC and PJ  Murray’s role in demolishing the former brewery that had been the obstacle in the way. Once again, Powell for this company, whom it is revealed worked for this corrupt and of course longstanding bankrupt retard local authority Birmingham City Council as deputy demolition officer when P J Murray won the contract. He then left that authority straight into a job with said demolition company. One can draw conclusions from this based on the 1981 article above but there is no evidence of course to associate either party with any wrongdoing. 😀

Price Waterhouse Cooper are one of the biggest Labour party donors out there and many would be sceptical of any vetting done by this firm given the state of the City Council finances that it now finds itself in.

 

And as a little matter of coincidence, just look at one company they were doing business with in 1988 from Tipton, why none other than Mintworth! On this note, I am still very sceptical that John Hurst is not still involved in some way with this site. Indeed I fully expect that there is some clause in the “sale” of this land where any future development will benefit the original polluter of the land. Who will pay for the full remediation of it however- not fucking him that is for sure!

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Pat Kelly Seniors company therefore does not appear to have very good foundations with many red flags raised, and see further below concerning DSM Demolition Limited ran by his sons for most of its existence. 

Works  under cover of lockdown 2020

In October 2020 I noticed activity on the hill off Gladstone Drive and vehicles travelling along the John’s Lane Road. I query the legal right for vehicles to use this access up to the canal given that it was in place at the time of the waste management licence for the said operation. When Mintworth decided to nullify this and abandon the site,  that licence was extinguished, yet for sanctioned  tatting operation in 2010-11 vehicles accessing this path obliterated the condition as well as damaging the Rhodia fence, so much so that signs were placed on here, (see below).

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On speaking to local residents, it was also clear that they were accessing the site via Gladstone Drive as well, and this sparked  concern as to what was being undertaken here in light of the machinery.

My observations showed that new boreholes were being sunk all over the place, including the one below on the crest of the East of Rose Lane area.

 

 

 

Black tracks were clearly carving up the land as they had a decade earlier turning the greened over land treacle noir again.

This operation appeared to last nearly a month, and samples were observed to have been collected of soil samples.

 

According to the company  information from this consultancy

“Our primary areas of interest are: – Ground investigation covering geotechnical and environmental services. Construction and built environment services.”

Drilling rigs were all over the site, and also right next to residential properties which caused concern again for residents.

 

 

red flags

And the so called absurd “Garden City” claimed its first casualties in that pathetic and fraudulent vision.

 

 

Local residents also took this video of activity adjacent to their homes. These two videos were taken on 15th and 16th October 2020. 

 

 

In regard to this new activity, I sent questions to SMBC as to what was going on and if consent was needed for such an operation, given that under legislation, this site is NOT the responsibility of the Environment Agency, due to the licence bypass, but of the council to ensure that no one comes to harm as a result of disturbing land known to contain waste potentially harmful to human health. This is part 2 A of The Environmental Protection Act.

It took this council 6 months to reply to this query, a pathetic and deliberate delay on their part. One can see from this that they could not care less about opposition to built development on “crap site” land such as this.

“With regard to your enquiry of 1st March which essentially was seeking a response to your original enquiry of last October.  Firstly, I apologise for the delay in responding, but your enquiry related to a number of different elements, many of which I am not directly responsible, hence this coupled with COVID 19 restrictions has made it difficult for officers to investigate your enquiry.

Response

Council officers will pursue the contractor and site owner to reinstate the footpath.  Unfortunately due to COVID 19, we are finding that Enforcement action can take more than a year through the Magistrates Court

The works that were undertaken last year, were exploratory works to understand the feasibility of developing site.  Planning permission is not required for these works.  Environmental Health would not have any involvement unless the works caused nuisance to residents. The planning authority has visited the site and noted that works have now ceased.  If a planning application is made in due course we would review any feasibility works that had been undertaken in consultation with Environmental Health. Such works are deemed to be good practice in preparation for the assembly of planning applications.

Whilst the site is allocated for housing within the development plan, no formal pre-application discussions have taken place at present with regard to redeveloping the site.  If a formal planning application is submitted for this site, both local residents and relevant statutory consultees (i.e. Environmental Health) would be consulted.  Any comments received would be considered during the determination of the application.”

No name was attached to this, though my original enquiry was Targeted at Alison Bishop in planning, whom I was told had now left SMBC , but hasn’t, and Gareth Davies of contaminated land. 
Compare the bullshit above with the recent statement put out by Sandwell council again, and you may appreciate why I do not believe a word that they say about any proposed future “intrusive site investigations”. 
THE 2025 KELLY FAMILY DESTRUCTION
Of course, the recent deforestation across the former Duport’s and Rattlechain Tips has now been carried out by a firm called DSM Demolition Limited of Saltley , Birmingham, company number 02266325. Obviously, this firm did not have to look very far for this contract given that two of its former directors are the same Desmond and Patrick (who takes the name Jim) Kelly and brother John of the Mill and Rattlechain Redevelopments Limited.
This company, as the  source I have already stated above confirms were sold by the Kelly family in 2017 and the triumvirate  are listed as having resigned on 31st March. 
As a basic search my first point of call after seeing the pathetic non existent Health and Safety at Work Act breaches being committed by DSM on this site was violation checker- a brilliant search resource for dodgy company activities where they have been found out. I was not disappointed in finding an interesting result- again continuing the theme of dishonesty and fraud as per P J Murray Limited and also involving asbestos! 
This revealed a very interesting recent massive fine of £1.4 million alongside numerous other organisations by The Competition Markets Authority. 
“The CMA fined 10 construction firms: Brown and Mason (£2,400,000), Cantillon (£1,920,000), Clifford Devlin (£423,615), DSM (£1,400,000), Erith (£17,568,800), JF Hunt (£5,600,000), Keltbray (£16,000,000), McGee (£3,766,278), Scudder (£8,256,264) and Squibb (£2,000,000) for illegally colluding to rig bids for demolition and asbestos removal contracts involving both public and private sector projects.”
The link takes you to a .GOV page press release which you can follow HERE for the full story. 
“Following an investigation by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), 10 UK-based construction firms have been fined £59,334,957 for colluding on prices through illegal cartel agreements when submitting bids in competitive tenders for contracts. These bids were rigged, deceiving the customer that they were competitive when that was not the case. Each of the 10 firms was involved in at least one instance of bid rigging between January 2013 and June 2018. The fines for each are: Brown and Mason (£2,400,000), Cantillon (£1,920,000), Clifford Devlin (£423,615), DSM (£1,400,000), Erith (£17,568,800), JF Hunt (£5,600,000), Keltbray (£16,000,000), McGee (£3,766,278), Scudder (£8,256,264) and Squibb (£2,000,000).”
The date of this fine was March 2023, and so I put in an foi request to the CMA asking for more details about the time of the cover bidding fraud offences committed by DSM to gauge if this was within the Kelly family run era. 
The CMA replied with a thorough response giving a handy table of the cartel fraudsters and the projects they had been involved in rigging.
In respect of DSM, we got the following.
“The Decision was addressed to the following undertakings (either because they were
the undertaking involved in the infringing conduct or because they were the parent or
economic company of that undertaking): 
….(d) DSM Demolition Limited and its parent companies, DSM SFG Group
Holdings Limited, Nobel Midco Limited and Nobel Topco Limited “
NB The registered address of the parent company of DSM demolition- DSM St Francis Group Holdings Limited company number 10631602 is the Kelly Mill in Henley in
Arden !
Nobel Midco Limited company number 10631201 is registered at Kelly’s eye number one High Street also. 
I cannot find a file for the third company but the date of the sale of this company by the Kelly family to others before the date of claimed offences does not so easily disassociate their potential activities in this matter when their headquarters are based in the same building. 

…….at least

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“As set out in the published Decision and the table above, DSM were found to have breached competition law in relation to one infringement, infringement 18. This concerned a tender for demolition services relating to Coventry University’s Civic Centre Scheme.”
Incredibly, this job is listed on their portfolio website, but no mention of any cartel fraud! 
With this is mind, one wonders how this company are still able to secure large contracts with players like Wolverhampton City Council, but I suppose local authorities as we have seen do not play with a straight bat either when it comes to using and misusing public money- Monopoly is their game! 
This whole demolition/construction industry is obviously institutionally corrupt to its core with development agencies like the former Black Country Development Corporation and now the West Midlands Combined Authority talking up “regeneration”, “growth” etc and no doubt the political players enjoy a similar cartel of having their palms greased for services rendered. 
THE BOTTOM LINE
One thing is absolutely clear here in that any proposal  for residential development on this Kelly owned land will be vehemently opposed at every stage, certainly if we see the bogus “consultation” exercise with a drafted in PR firm attempting to present pretty pictures of “master planning” and recycle something that they think no one remembers from circa 1990, or anything else.
Be in no doubt, the thousands of tonnes of foundry sand buried here and the associated dusts and the hazardous waste and scrap buried beneath that. No one wants to see a return to this and the 1990’s, and I would suggest that those who do not live in this area and want to despoil it again can go and fuck right off with their construction vehicles and play doozers elsewhere in Ireland, and that goes for any politicians who back such schemes as well- you will be voted out! 

Temple Way Estate smothered by the Hursts  circa 1994 . Robert brook/science photo library. NEVER AGAIN!

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Residential victims of “reclamation”

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Those living on The Temple Way estate have had a very rude awakening of how dubious outfits backed by Sandwell council do not care about ripping out views that were bought with the home, views that cannot be replaced. Some residents have rightly complained to Sandwell Council about the lack of notice and what has been left behind- a desolate quagmire with no apparent ecological value. Sandwell council have a long history of batting away people’s concerns in this area about “offshore” landowners and their big reclamation ideas. YOU CAN READ THAT AND JUDGE FOR YOURSELVES HERE. This speaks volumes about them as to whom they really serve as well as to whom they appear to be in the pockets of.

This post tells the real stories of people affected who awoke to see the devastation unfolding from their back gardens and I thank them for the photos/videos and stories sent in or comments made on social media.

The before and after views of DSM destruction have been sent to Sandwell Council, Alan Lunt and Suzanne Hartwell we are informed by residents in Temple Way. 

Residents of Gladstone Drive told me they went to work before 8am to come back to find the trees had all gone in front of their homes.

Winter wonderland

Before.

The vandalism and destruction of DSM demolition and the Kelly family

 

Remember how Sandwell Council claimed that no soils had been disturbed by this operation?

A resident in Macdonald Close has commented

“I live right behind it on Macdonald Close. I’m completely devastated. I’ve been watching the destruction outside my back garden. Really upsetting. Also my cats are too scared to go out.”

Another resident sent in before and after photos and others have stated that foxes are now roaming the streets displaced by the impact of the now barren landscape.

Demolition wrecker detected

“5 years ago I brought my forever home with a beautiful view of green land out my back windows with no one looking over me in my garden. On the 13th Jan 2025 I heard machinery out the bedroom window I looked out to see diggers ripping all the trees out of the ground. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, I called my local councillor Suzanne Hartwell a number if times through the day but her phone was off so I called Sandwell council to find out what was going on, I was told they’d had a number of calls regarding this and they email me a link to explain what’s going on, in this explained that local residents would of had a leaflet posted explained what’s happening ( I’m still waiting for the leaflet) but they did say there has been no planning promotion granted has of yet.

I decided to email Suzanne Hartwell beens I couldn’t get her via phone. Then on the evening I call another councillor Marie Compton, I explained what was happening and asked her to find out what was happening, she told me to give her a couple of days. On the 20th January I was woken up at 7.45am to the diggers ripping more trees out, I didn’t think machinery shouldn’t be use before 8 in a residential area. Due to all this I feel my mental health is being affected, I can’t go on my weekly walks over there because it upsets me too much, every time I open my blinds in a morning I feel totally gutted.”

 

A five year view gone within days

 

Do not try to tell me that this is progress, it is about the avarice of chancers as it was throughout the 1990’s when some arrogant selfish individuals with no interest whatsoever in the area other than screwing it over to make money wrecked it for their own gain. This is just the start however and this is why residents of Temple Way need to stick together and fight for what is there. There will be no second chance when this land gains any planning permission. THE SANDWELL PLAN MUST BE DERAILED BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY. 

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Sandwell planning officers- WHO DO THEY WORK FOR?

 

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Following numerous communications from myself as well as other local residents of Temple Way estate bordering the destructive activities of the landowner and their contractor, it is clear to see the lack of interest amongst local politicians who claim to represent the area. Communications with cabinet member Suzanne Hartwell and Deputy leader and ward councillor for example have not been returned. I do know she received them however due to an apparent accidental sharing of her forwarding my email on to a man called Alan Lunt, and I had to make sure I spelt that correctly. 😆

A. Lunt, got back to me with the abysmal email below, complete with spelling errors after a vigorous prodding no doubt that he had got from the member for Oldbury.

This email response remarkably coincided with the curtailing of DSM demolition’s “work” on the site to destroy green space and evidence of wildlife habitat- in a very similar way I would argue to that which the landowners of The Crooked House acted in regards to that building being a problem for their long term scheming motives for that particular piece of land.

It is therefore, complicity on the part of Sandwell planning policy officers to have stood by and let this destruction happen, fail to respond or answer reasonable concerns , and also a failure of environmental health, contaminated land officers and others to also engage. This is not the first time that has happened with regard to activities on this site that I have raised. 

The copy and paste bullshit written below, and which Lunt shared and which Hartwell and others just copy and pasted to other residents is obscene in its fundamental untruthful lies being written on behalf of a private business not based in Sandwell and whose directors are foreign nationals.

I will dissect this shite paragraph by paragraph in rebuttal and give evidence of why the individuals who wrote this are deceiving those to whom they shared it- as it appears on the council’s planning website- that means every tax payer of this local authority.

Vegetation clearance work being done on Rattlechain Tip in Tividale, Oldbury | Sandwell Council

Rattlechain Tip in Tividale, Oldbury, is a privately-owned brownfield site that has been identified as being suitable for housing in the local plan, subject to planning permission being granted and reclamation work being done on the land.

This site is no longer known as “Rattlechain Tip”. This was a historic name when the site had a site licence SL947 , overseen by The Environment Agency. If they had stated “former rattlechain tip” or “Former Duport’s tip” that would be accurate. That should also be caveated in that the current owners of this land and their agents are also proposing the adjacent rattlechain lagoon, not owned by them with their site allocation for 550 houses in the local plan. The council may believe it has been identified as “suitable for housing”, but only a fucking fool/crook/fraudster would consider that it is given the history of contamination.

I would add that this “private site” has seen generous handouts from the public purse- and why should that be?

AN URBAN FOREST COSTING £56,000

A FENCED OFF REPLACEMENT FENCE IN GLADSTONE DRIVE COSTING £14,000

CLEARANCE OF FOUNDRY SAND CAUSING FLOODING ISSUES ONTO SHEEPWASH NATURE RESERVE – PART OF WORKS COSTING £13,600. 

WE WOULD ALSO ADD THAT SINCE WHEN HAVE THE POLICE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR PATROLLING PRIVATE LAND IN RESPECT OF ASB BEING COMITTED ON THAT LAND , AND NOT PRIVATE SECURITY?

NONE OF THIS WAS PAID FOR BY JOHN HURST OR OTHERS AND CAUSED BY THIS MAN AND HIS FAMILY AND SUBSEQUENT MULTIPLE COMPANIES FOR WHICH HE WAS A DIRECTOR.

Planning officers from the council have met with the agents acting for the landowner to discuss how this large site can be reclaimed and redeveloped to provide much-needed housing.

WHEN, BEFORE OR AFTER IT WAS BROUGHT TO THEIR ATTENTION THAT WORKS NOT SANCTIONED BY PLANNING PERMISSION WERE UNFOLDING? Was this pre- application advice, which planning officers met with their agents and where? Again I would note that they do not own the lagoon site and I would therefore ask if Solvay were in on these discussions, given they have remained silent on what they make of this scheme. In 2011, they claimed they did not think is feasible. Historically that is also the view that came out of a report independently funded by The BCDC.

The term “much needed housing” is a lie- a political lie made by those supporting the daily locust invasion of  singular men from a safe EU NATO country in boats, many with criminal or terrorist intent, and with no interest in this country at all, other than what they can take from it. The council needs housing because of Labour’s mismanagement of public finances on every sphere of Governance that it has ever held, bankrupting every economy with its pet project socialist bullshit agenda.

The landowner has this week started to clear vegetation in advance of future site investigations which will inform a future planning application.

This is a council statement as though it is fact, which it is not. There is no requirement to remove existing fauna that is known to be there. Site investigations were noted to be taking place in 2020, indeed what fools would buy land before undertaking site investigations unless they believe a conman who sold it on to them? The only reason the land was cleared in advance of the Sandwell plan examination is to remove all trace of the habitat mentioned in objection by ourselves and the BBC wildlife trust who specifically mentioned the need for a priority sites assessment and that it is in their LNRN  before any application is submitted. This of course means that these tree destroyers can claim that it is no longer a priority site. There is due process to follow, and these have not.

Independent ecologists have assessed wildlife and protected species that live or may be living on the site and an ecologist is attending the works with a watching brief.

Do the council know this to be fact? What consultancy was overseeing this work? If they are being paid by the landowners they are not in any way “independent”. No ecologist knowing the objections from the BBC wildlife trust would have sanctioned this wholesale destruction, unless they are fake or bent. To call them “ecologists” is like calling Harold Shipman a good doctor.

Preparatory works of this type are a normal part of the development process.

This is a lie. If they were sanctioned by an outline planning application they may be, but that is not the case. No assessment has been made about this site, nothing has gone to a planning committee or been decided by the due process of scrutiny. Nothing has been put into the public domain to object to. The “normality” suggests a corrupt planning system at work with Sandwell council failing to consider its own policies in relation to wildlife and habitats. A planning application safeguards policies of this type with conditions attached, there are none here because there has not been an application when there should have been to justify this wholescale destruction.

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The council has been advised that the private landowner has distributed leaflets to nearby residents to explain the works being undertaken which includes a contact number for the contractor should there be any queries relating directing to the works themselves.

THIS IS A BLATANT LIE ON BEHALF OF THE LIARS DESMOND AND PATRICK KELLY AND “RATTLECHAIN REDEVELPOMENTS LIMITED”. No residents received any leaflets, they have told us this, posted that publicly on social media and yet Sandwell council put this over as a statement of truth which they have not bothered to check for themselves. Do they think that I or others would have contacted the council and reacted asking them “what is going on?” if these Irish shysters had disseminated literature? The council here are misinforming the public and gaslighting them, and the fact they have put out this untruthful lie into the public domain means they are happy to lie for the liars from Malvern.

The council is aware of the work and has seen the contractor’s risk assessments to ensure the work being done is being properly managed. There will be no ground investigation of the site at this point.

They are aware because people have contacted them, or are they admitting here that they were aware that they were going to do the work- and are thus complicit in the destruction of wildlife habitat in response to the objections that we raised and that which the BBC wildlife trust also raised?

DSM demolition’s risk assessments are obviously a complete joke. At no time were there any site notices posted of what they were doing, no communication strategy, no visible warning notices or apparent method of working. Their brief appears to be- “get rid of those fucking trees as quick as possible.” If the council were happy with this work then they in themselves are grossly negligent in being able to assess such works. If the council claim that there will be no ground investigation at this point, they have just contradicted why they have earlier claimed in a previous paragraph that it is “normal practice.” How do they account for this, as it suggests they are talking bollocks, which they are?

We have been advised that the work, which began on 8 January 2025, should take around two weeks to complete.

Again, they cannot confirm this but state they have been “advised. They put this statement out when the works had conveniently began to stop. It was nearer three weeks, and at no time during this period were the council claiming to be aware of what was going in. If they did, then why their delay in having to ask the agents for more information?

This is a very early stage in investigating the potential future use of this site and no planning permission for development has been granted at this time.

So why do they believe that it is possible without this investigation being completed to include the site in a plan lasting into the 2030’s? Should we also remind them that this land has been soiled for over 50 years by operations sanctioned by their useless/corrupt planning department, and if it were a suitable site, then why did those earlier applications not guarantee that no contaminated issues were left there? Why would a site investigation even be needed given that Sandwell council has had control of planning for almost 50 years since 1974?

Should an application be made in the future, consultation on the proposals will be undertaken with residents who would then have a chance to make any comments. Any comments can be raised in writing via email to info@eliastopping.co.uk

This is another open ended doublespeak. Local residents have been affected already before any application and will be so before any is made. Residents have already made comments and Sandwell council officers like Alan Lunt have just batted them away with bullshit lies like this. They have signed a petition against these proposals already because no one on the estate wants this site for residential allocation, and Sandwell council already know this. Their planning policy officers however and the executive that are in the pockets of the construction industry and who follow Government diktats about relocating economic migrants claiming false asylum, using the banner  “much needed housing” is too tempting a carrot when that same Government showers them with money for doing so.

The outfit in Birmingham are obviously acting as agents for the land owners, and no comments should be made to them by anyone at this stage. This is another contradiction in that the council have stated that comments should be made when an application surfaces, to them as a planning authority. You do not make representations to the applicants or their agents FFS! 

As for the landowners, one is reminded of the bloke who lost his crypto laptop in a landfill site and now cannot get it back. Were there rumours of a long lost golden spud buried within the Duport’s Tip that had reached the fair shores of Kildare?- Maybe that is more nearer the truth than any of the bullshit being put out by Sandwell Council officers on their behalf.


 

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ECOCIDE- Misery and despair return to Temple Way!

 

It is with a very heavy heart, that our worst fears about the Sandwell Plan are now arising and a sense of Deja vu on the former Duport’s Tip and surrounding roads has seen the mass destruction of hundreds of mature trees and the associated wildlife that lived there.

The previous operations and planning saga on this site were outlined in this post, but this perhaps serves as the direct sequel as to what is to come, and so we all must fight on to try to stop that from happening.

By way of history, the article below was written in 1995, and confirms that the area planted that has now been wrecked in just two weeks was a publicly funded urban forest that at this time was used as a propaganda tool by the then Black Country Development Corporation. This body were a despicable shill organisation for new build development, but used token planting like this to try to attempt to convey green credentials using our money. We can now see this fraud for what it was and that of their successor – The West Midlands Combined Authority.

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I was contacted by a local resident who alerted me to the presence of diggers on the site in a Pearl Harbour style attack on the areas wild space. I visited on 11/1/2025 on a cold foggy morning, and in the mist I could see and hear the clattering of fallen trees as two diggers were on site. The video below captures some of this. Trees were piled up and they had obviously gained access from Gladstone Drive- the new front line of the war on wildlife.

Digger in the mist

 

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By the afternoon, the two vehicles were parked up at the entrance, and it was clear to see that both were branded “DSM”. This was quickly found to be a company called DSM Demolition based in Saltley Birmingham.

It was clear to see the destruction that had been wrought on the site from above on the mound. I observed no site safety notices nor anything to prevent the public from accessing where I walked from off the canal- indeed this site has been used regularly by residents, dog walkers and the general public for many years after the Hurst family had abandoned it- save of course for their tatting for metal exercise in 2010 which I looked at in this post. Trees were piled up, and it struck me that it was their intention to remove any trace of ecology off the site so they could attempt to claim there was nothing there.

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Also piled up at the entrance were remains of the butile lining of the French Drain, installed as a planning condition on account for the landfill gas associated with this site. One therefore ponders as to what pre application advice or guidance had been sought from Sandwell council- of course they had questions to answer?

Local residents had started to contact me about the work, and I immediately put in an email and contacted those in the council, including the deputy leader and Oldbury ward councillor for this area Suzanne Hartwell. Needless to say, I have yet to get any answers or even the courtesy of a response from this individual. 

Over the course of the following week, the destruction continued daily after the Sunday rest. Where was the recent tree survey, where was the recent ecological survey for protected species, let alone the recent soil tests bearing in mind that this is a contaminated former landfill site and that earth is being moved around by the vehicles on site? In fact, what type of site even is it, bearing in mind that it is not a site that has had any planning permission granted and no conditions to safeguard the public or the environment?

Looking across the lagoon, and the invasive filth on the hill

 

They were visible from the lagoon side just plucking trees out of the ground without a care.

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Also exposed were remnants of waste packaging and scrap that had previously been unearthed then reburied during The Hurst family tattaphon in 2010. 

The sun sets on the Tividale Urban Forest, as a darkened shadow malice descends

 

A rotary cutter destroys some more vegetation

The site now resembles a Viet Cong garden circa 1968 after being sprayed with agent orange, or perhaps the analogy of an Irish garden during potato famine may be more appropriate in this case. 😮

 

View from The Rattlechain Bridge canal basin

This desolation

 

The new barren landscape off Macdonald Close.

Sandwell council- treachery, Public relations lies and complicity. 

A somewhat embarrassing statement from Sandwell Council’s tree strategy and Implementation Plan 2023 – 2028
“2. Aim and Objectives
2.1 The Council’s overarching aim is:
“To protect, enhance and manage our tree and woodland cover in a sustainable way for the benefit of current and future generations, wildlife, and nature”
SMBC are not averse to putting out tree planting propaganda like the posts below, and one wonders the impact of hundreds of trees being destroyed will have on their pathetic calculations. When you also consider their complicity in planned destruction of areas in Friar Park, Lion Farm and Brandhall golf course, the theory from the desk jockeys is seen for what it is. 

It is clear to see that the landowners, whom I will be scrutinising in an upcoming post had a clear intention of removing natural habitat and known and recorded species from their soiled “development opportunity” “brownfield” site. I have said in the past what this term means and it is political doublespeak for where the poor people can live, and “greenbelt” is doublespeak for where the rich people can live in splendid isolation. Anyone who wants to protect the so called “greenbelt” and who lives in urban areas does not have a fucking brain, and is so clueless it is not worth me even trying to explain concepts like this and the gaslighting of the political class who of course live in their splendid “greenbelt” isolation oasis.

The Birmingham and Black Country Wildlife Trust also objected to the loss of open space and this area is still within the area known as “The Local nature area recovery network.” It is difficult to see what opportunity there is now, but certainly we know what was there, and this has been recorded. If the landowners come out with some latter day report written by a claimed environmental consultancy, that consultancy and their professional credibility will be put to the sword.

The forest may be gone, and the wildlife for now, but earth works, not sanctioned by any valid permission is a direct threat to public health. The council know this, and are obliged to protect us, even though they have failed miserably in that regard over many years.

RECORDING AND COLLATING EVIDENCE FROM LOCAL RESIDENTS.

I am going to be updating this website in order that local residents can have a full toolkit of resources and links to attack with- because be in no doubt, we are in for the fight of our lives against corrupt people with a corrupt planning system which does nothing any favours except pass ludicrous applications that destroy nature and wreck communities.

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Sandwell plan update- shifting goal posts and underhand methods

 

The useless Sandwell Plan is now thankfully out of the hands of Sandwell planning policy and is to be reviewed by a supposedly “independent” inspector appointed by the Secretary of State- erm, the one who wants to build as many rat holes for the dinghy donghy folk entering the country illegally via a safe NATO EU country- and many as a result of decades of wars propagated by the West in the Middle East for the military/industrial complex so Westminster scum can gain backhander rewards.

In terms of the aims of this website and conservation groups, the aim has always been to oppose the wretched con artistry that transpired throughout the 1990’s with shifting large amounts of foundry sand around for profit between three self proclaimed “areas” and then leaving fuck all when the easiest part- the former sewage works had gained development through appeal- in truth that appeal should never have been allowed but was- by an “independent inspector!”

This exposure of what went on then has been years in the making for myself, over half of my life, and in due course that story will be publicly revealed in full so that this independent inspector can see the light and not be conned like John Woolcock was in 2003. Not conned by phoney “expert witnesses” or random academics who made statements of absolute provable untruth such as “oxidation-reduction reactions over time “ would have lowered the amount of white phosphorus in the lagoon- BULLSHIT.

Not conned by the desire to shift around massive over tipped piles of foundry sand into a vacant hole- the lagoon, as regulators in 1990 ruled out totally in the Cremer and Warner report and then just leave it there knowing full well this site would never support built foundations. Not conned by the loss of bio diversity and scammed by “bio diversity credits” like some money laundering Maltese crypto currency. Yes, there are many things about these two sites which are scams and frauds, and have been since the days of the scumbag Sydney Sheldon.

Nine regulation 19 forms were submitted by myself, on behalf of The Friends of Sheepwash Local Nature Reserve, backed by a petition signed by many local residents of the Temple Way estate, and users of Sheepwash. Also supplied with this was a comprehensive set of evidence references which were mentioned on every form, as I feared they would be excluded or redacted by the council- who send the database responses off to the programme officer, and the inspector.

Needless to say, when the forms were published, I could see that the detailed evidence base HAD NOT BEEN. This file had clearly been sent with the forms, and a digital copy of the petition, and so I quickly contacted the programme officer about this matter, proving that it had been sent, and proving that the council had received it. I can only speculate that this was some oversight on the part of those behind this plan, but as I do not trust them in the least, I am certainly glad that the inspector now has a fuller understanding of what others would see less complex. This includes relevant evidence from Marianne Walsh- a real expert in white phosphorus chemistry and remediation from published papers during her time at the US Army Corp of Engineers- where in one instance, Rattlechain lagoon and the bird deaths were cited!

Sandwell council have now published more detail on the sites SH36 AND SH35– which includes the lagoon, without any comment or agreement that Rhodia/Solvay support this proposal- as last time in 2011 they did not when the question was asked of them. On this matter I need to digress.

These “scientists” have dodged answering questions about this site over countless years and have shown themselves to have a backbone of a yellow streak of piss, more jaundiced than the yellow phosphorus they thought was “safe” being dumped in the lagoon- and Dutton, Moorhouse, and co I’m talking about YOU! Sometimes I wonder if they contracted Giardiasis from their limited time at the waterside of their dump- as that may explain the yellow stool’s disorder in telling the truth.

If you had been honest with me from day one and not lied, misinformed and come out with semantic fucking shite, then the light of exposure may have never been out on you. You were just servants of a corporate machine and protectors of the chemical industry that dumps harmful material knowingly and then expects everyone to believe that it is “harmless” by claiming that what it is mixed in with can be found in “everyday items”. This was the standard lie of Albright and Wilson, and it was just continued over decades without scrutiny by every regulator and by pathetic civil servants in planning and contaminated land. 

I have to state, that I did not see this form at all during the consultation, and it appears to have been added post consultation. 

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SH35

A checklist appears which in itself is not a credible start given that the two sites cannot be lumped together as one site- where evident, I will refer to these by the correct names, rattlechain lagoon- SL31 licence, and Fomer Duport’s Tip operating under several licences. The lagoon licence is still current and the site has not been fully remediated- hence no licence surrender. 

  • The “overgrown and neglected” area refers to the former Duport’s Tip side, though in truth, what does “overgrown” mean, when it was created as “private open space” in the title of the planning application? Any issues with neglect lie with the Hurst family entirely. 
  • The historic summary is just not acceptable and massages the truth about contamination issues.
  • A traffic light system is envisaged for certain criteria, and whoever wrote this is not qualified to make such assessments, nor credible in a professional capacity to do so.

  • Topography- er the site was over-tipped with foundry sand to levels never agreed by the regulators or in planning conditions!
  • Note that this states that a “tree survey may be required” – not that one has been completed. This is not a free pass to cut them all down!
  • Sandwell council again fail to mention the biodiversity at Sheepwash and the clear network within the identified Local Nature recovery network. This should be RED
  • I would state that the site DOES have visual amenity in an area swamped by housing. It is a valued asset in a landlocked area. Why is nature treated so flippantly here?
  • Flood risk- er that is not what the Environment Agency have commented in objection!
  • Ground contamination- well how do they manage to navigate around that elephant in the room? This imbecile who wrote this obviously knows nothing at all about the two separate sites, and their incompatibility. They know nothing about the proven systemic exposure to receptors, which the useless regulators could not see, or the risks to human health which remain- especially phosphine gas and the lagoon being dewatered. This was an obvious red, and the statement is inadequate characterisation of the issues to an almost childlike level- or the work of a liar more likely.   

  • Air quality- are you fucking serious? The issues of this site and the foundry sand ruining their homes is well documented but systematically ignored by SMBC environmental health and planners.
  • The failure to separate the sites in terms of past use or even mention the still active waste licence is again noted in the ridiculous over simplification.
  • “Issues of contamination and remediation may delay delivery”- no fucking shit! This should obviously be red given that the lagoon is still under licence!
  • In terms of current logistics and amenity, this too is over simplified in the matter of waste water and capacity adjacent to The River Tame. Severn Trent have a vested interest in this land, and should not be treated as an impartial consultee!

  • By the South, they presumably mean Gladstone Drive
  • Oh “slight congestion” are they even aware of this estate and its issues already! How is an extra 550 houses going to produce this!
  • How these idiots can claim that existing schools etc could accommodate this increase in housing, let alone other proposed sites in the plan as well is beyond belief.
  • It is noted that loss of wildlife oppurtunites or habitat loss not even assessed by these arseholes.

The existing landowner is not stated, but appears to me to be similar in suggestion to the supposed former land owner of questionable character.

  • The sustainability scores are nonsense diversions away from the constraint issues of remediation and who would pay for this- certainly not the fucking site owners by past experience who are already tapping the public purse for their Coneygree site, left in similar state by the Hurst family! It is this type of theory written by desk based prats that is the problem I gavce with all of this. The lack of knowledge or investigation is staggering, but on a par with people like John Baylay, who in public said one thing, and in private said that the site was “a crap site for residential!- which it was, and this one is even crapper still!

Well at least the good folk of Temple Way can sleep easier knowing that some ginger headed fucker will not be knocking their doors offering the remove the single trees in the gardens for “tirty tree” quid. How ironic that the only red is about where to put didicoys- piss off down BMH.

The loss of all that green space could not possibly result in the biodiversity net gain that the council love to talk abut on paper.

SH36

This smaller area once again is defined by its appearance suggesting the land owners have obviously left it in this manner, and yet appear to be incapable or unwilling to remedy their lack of management, presumably so they can tap the public purse to do it.

The idea that this is not in a flood risk zone when the site includes a certain large clue is beyond belief!

 

Once again, mention of a tree survey. There appears to be a large amount of cop/paste going on here with these sites, meaning that the real identification is not credible, but rushed to get the document out. The traffic light system is therefore a game of paper/scissors/stone and left to those who really know the land to make their own conclusions, and not theirs. Unless the planning inspector visits sites like this for himself, he is also reliant on guesswork that should not be the basis of such assessments. 

The most interesting comment is given in linking these two sites- ie, the same owners own SH36 to the majority of the SH35 site, minus rattlechain lagoon. I have asked to see the letter from who these agents are, as to date, I cannot find a record of it in the submissions for regulation 19.

I will deal with what has transpired on this site within the last two weeks in the next post, which makes a further mockery of Sandwell Council Planning Policy, their weak policies and the destruction of greenery in what they claimed would be “a garden city principle” scheme. 

When all this land is gone, where will we see any wildlife, as it will not be in any Garden City that the fools in planning policy at SMBC think can fit around their overcrowded residential hell they so love.  

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Opinion- Khant’s London can “go home” not come home to The West Midlands!

“Love where you RENT”, because you will never OWN your own home or anything else in the WEF controlled Khant galaxy- but don’t worry you’ll be “happy”. 

Why does London think that the rest of the UK should follow it! We had this testing ground bunch of prats to thank for the idea of creating metro mayors- or the roll out of zoned Baronary across the UK to create the idea of 15 minute city lockdown areas. Of course, they said “yes” as they do to everything that imposes unquestioning fascistic governance upon it like the EU.  The London boroughs say “migrants are welcome here” yet farm them out to the rest of the UK and our own back yard when they cannot take any more. Uncontrolled singular men who come here to rape young girls are not welcome here, and this is the uncomfortable truth the mainstream media are keen to play down, as well as the current Government who appear to be paedophile grooming gang enablers.

It is fairly obvious that MP’s and civil servants are being parachuted into our area to drive through “interventions”, “behaviour change” and control of policy running along the lines of the WEF liberal globalists who want you to “own nothing but be happy” by the year 2030. Their plan is that which is expressed in THIS ARTICLE- you have been warned! Do not talk of “conspiracy”- that is their device for those who expose their snake oil and show how their plans are a series of baby steps such as making everything “smart” which in reality means monitoring everything that you do, monitoring wherever you go and what you spend your money on.

The war mongering tyrant known as Blair often pops up with his “digital ID” bullshit on behalf of the silicon chip cult, a vessel further towards a cashless society and social credit system like China, where everything you buy or can buy is controlled by your compliance to diktats that obedience to commands allow.

Why have people surrendered their entire lives to mobile devices, glued to their hands like walking zombies, not listening to anyone talking out loud or watching where they are going, programmed for instruction when a signal goes off and controlled by pings, rings and messages- now “alerts” with Government propaganda about their “climate change” and “pandemic” hoaxes? How did it take just one generation to come to this and all the warnings of Orwell and even the lyrics of Simon and Garfunkel falling on deaf ears?

Khant’s regime is well known for lying about the impacts of emissions in and around the capital, and the lie of his “interventions”- road theft tithes– making some difference. Meanwhile every New Year’s Eve he wastes millions on polluting the London skies with fireworks whilst making some woke political stunt “diversity” shite statement. The very good work of the “blade runners” is to be condoned and commended for sabotaging his ambitions to control everyone’s movements by vehicle ULEZ whilst worrying about farting cows in the great reset- (theft of personal property, so you own nothing). Meanwhile blades on the streets are used every week in Sadiq’s lawless city where we hear of yet another teen stabbing almost daily. Even the name “London” appears to generate ethnic imported violence in areas like “Little London” in Walsall– too near our borders in Sandwell.

So woke and out of touch with the sane North of Watford are these cockney sparra plebs of Khant, that I think to protect ourselves, we should declare independence from the rest of the South and reform the Home Guard to keep them out, creating a major infrastructure project “The Great Wall of Watford” instead of their H$2 gravy train nonsense.

Mayors are obsessed with public transport and stopping free movement with cars in this new Starmergeddon. The lunatic Andy Street now thankfully gone, was smitten with his metro, that fails to run frequently, costs millions over budget on one line that could be walked within an hour and yet more lines being planned and overestimated in timescale of delivery and ever increasing costs. The Khant likes to rename lines after shockingly woke causes like domestic terrorist “suffragettes”. If and when London Bridge falls in a false flag operation, it would not surprise me in the least if a children’s competition urged by the mayor declared the winner to be inspired by something else from Walsall.

Go and take the knee under that!

Both Street and Khant have now been rewarded with knighthoods, though I doubt if these chevaliers would ever enter battle, though in the case of the former, he may like riding stallions. 😉

I recently, and whilst you still can travel by car into the heart of darkness went undercover into the lair of the enemy on a fact finding spy mission- well actually a visit and tour of Wembley Stadium to see what the Khant little odious goblin is brewing from Brent. The old stadium of the twin towers is long gone, and now a so called “Wembley Park” encompasses the new centre of sports and entertainment, where of course, the political class get free tickets for favours granted, and get to pose in those smug twitter picture selfies with fellow elites, or maybe some other social media these days now that is no longer politically favourable to them and cancellation is their mantra.

The old stadium plan

Now that the election in the US has gone a certain way we can perhaps look forward to the exodos of refugee American nonentity influencers and B list actors, so wonderfully captured  in parody in the film Team America World Police. Their hate of their own president is captured in their support of “Glutious Maximus” Khant, based on his past public arguments with Trump, salivating when calling him “sir” and supporting his fake “diversity” that in reality is outright discrimination against  majority white heterosexual masculinity. Of course they feted Weinstein, as Ricky Gervais so aptly pointed out until he was exposed. Labour like the Democrats of America appear to have enjoyed the connections and the company of paedophiles and sexual deviants, but then when they are outed form some type of sisterhood as though they have invented some victim group they never spoke about when the crimes were being committed. Strange that. No you are not welcome in OUR country, so please go home, fuck off and whine about your own domestic issues in The Huffington Post and on CNN.

The Democrat party of America psy-op and false Demi God

The new London skyline is high with apartments all under cctv surveillance at every corner. Sparsely populated trees are token set in tubs, to stop people driving no doubt out or in of the LTN areas and the whole area is a forum shrine to narcissism- every designer shop materialistic and cosmetic to personal appearance.

Set out like a Legoland playset

yet more fucking rainbows- sheese

The rising facades surround the stadium with a giant car park centrepiece. It struck me very much certainly after seeing the film Gladiator 2 that the idea of positions like Mayor and a “senate” or assembly are very much based on Roman Empire and provinces- the centrepiece of the city being a Colosseum or stadium. No one dies in gladiatorial combat at “Wembley Park” , but those in the private boxes sit on thrones like Caligula figures in splendour as those in the stands chant for their heroes and boo their villains on either team. Prince William, so the guide stated apparently has a seat warming feature with the press of a button when he attends matches, or perhaps a pop up pegging device would be more suited to his tastes? 🙁

So ugly is this brave new world that I needed a detox on entering the stadium itself. The tour itself was very good getting to see areas that were usually off limits and view some pieces of history that were from better times- before the rise of the Khantfather.

“Coming home”, or going to Rome?

 

 

Still gleaming?

 

It must be naturally easy for German players to raise their right arms when appealing for offside.

And then the tour was over as it began at the steps with statues of fallen “gladiators” of the past who would not recognise any of the surroundings or world that their bronzed likenesses now occupy.

I cannot imagine who would want to live in such a place of transient human movement but the civil service blob no doubt loves it there, as from this base they can all be “happy” rolling out the LTN networks across the UK awaiting the latest Khant command. We see these people, acolytes of the freak fake religion of “the society of friends”- (a liberal capitalist family monopoly)  and disciples of Howard  constructing their town plans in language like “garden city principles”– in reality the 15 minute city where the freak Quaker vermin operate from the centre.

There is always a glossy plan.

Big brother is watching you in 2024

“Once in awhile I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. No where I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me.”

 

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Happy 2025- Your alternative toxic calendar

Are you lucky enough to live in the 1km HSE consultation zone?

 

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO YOU, except if you worked for Albright and Wilson or Rhodia, in which case UP YER BUM!!

Yes it’s that time of year when Solvay, now known as “Syensqo” push a calendar through local doors blowing their own trumpets, and trying to keep a lid on their own apparatus in the vile production units containing enough dangerous chemicals to wipe out an entire city.

This year, tomorrow to be exact, marks 16 years to the day since they released a toxic assault onto the local area.

It took years for the truth to come out about that one.

 

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2025 Toxic calendar

Don’t forget, The information contained in this calendar is important- please keep it in a *safe place *(preferably not in Oldbury).

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