new.EalingToday.co.uk Communtity Forum Topic: Cllr Bell's 5 meetings and 5 recommendations for planning approval

Benjamin Dennehy · 8/13/2013 10:14:00 AM

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Cllr Bell's 5 meetings and 5 recommendations for planning approval

Further FOI shows Cllr Bell has initiated a total of 5 meetings since 2010 for pre-planning applications. ALL were recommended for APPROVAL. A Shackleton Medical Centre in Southall was one. I wonder if Dr Sahota has an interest in it?See documents here;http://benjamindennehy.com/2013/08/13/cllr-bell-the-5-meetings-the-5-approvals-and-more/

Benjamin Dennehy ● 4614d5 Comments

Well now if you have a Council with people who say one thing today and another tomorrow and the Leader is apparently the one under the spotlight, do we have a Council which knows if there are seven days to a week or five?Whoever you believe the whole issue puts the competence of Ealing Council in a bad light and generates even greater cause for lesser respect.There needs to be a clearout including a look at the officers.

George Knox ● 4612d

It seems Cllr Bell has been on the war path. The FOI officer got back to me to retract the 5 meetings attended by Cllr Bell. They now say the information they gave me was wrong and that Cllr Bell did not attend the 14 Eccleston property meeting, though he did facilitate the meeting.They say that the other 3 meetings they refer to were at the behest of the Leader but no planners attended.I have sought clarification in case they feel Noel Rutherford is not considered a planner. I believe he is the lead planner. But let's look into that as they may have excluded him because I did not specifically say Director. I have now made that request.See the latest letter hear;http://benjamindennehy.com/2013/08/13/cllr-bell-the-5-meetings-the-5-approvals-and-more/

Benjamin Dennehy ● 4612d

Re: Beresford Road which you mentioned. One of Gill's companies is Beresford Construction Limited (Developer and Real Estate) inc. 1996. Listed address for Gill is Beacon House, 184 Beaconsfield Road, Southall ub1 1ea

Charles Campbell ● 4612d

Interesting. I note that Gurpal Singh Gill is the sole director of Bcs Medical (Beacon Care Services), which is the sole director of Shackleton. The web of company owned by company goes on further. Is Gurpal Grewal the same as the above or a relation? One of Gurpal Singh GIll's companies (Director of 10 active ) runs a current liability of 1.5m versus a negative 250k book value and a small current assets on the balance sheet. Basically a good place to put debt and then dissolve I suppose.

Charles Campbell ● 4612d

Well this is all intriguing. Why is Bell getting involved at all and why just in Southall? The council’s website says the applicant for 14 Ecclestone Road was Mr Balwant Grewal. He put in a retrospective application in 2010 for an extension already built that breached planning control and it was refused and enforced. However after Cllr Bell became leader of the council Mr Grewal got a new retrospective application approved. Why the change and why did Bell get involved? Did the planner overturn the refusal and enforcement because the leader of the council intervened? Did Bell interfere because Balwant Grewal is the Chair of the India Association with links to MP Virendra Sharma (ref.Google) and as Bell works for Sharma does he do what his boss tells him?There is a link between the 46-54 Beresford Road and the Shackleton Medical Centre applications ie Mr Gurpal Grewal. Oddly enough Grewal is also connected to the India Association as joint Secretary and also an acquaintance of Mr Sharma. A search on the council's planning website for Shackleton Road, Shackleton Medical Centre or PP/2012/0034 produces no results. Why? Is someone making it hard to find? There is a link to another planning application from Gurpal Grewal for a Acton property where he changed the use from medical center to residential flats (115 Gunnersbury Lane, Acton W3 8HQ (Agent: Beacon Care Services). The company Beacon Beresford Group is a private business with a nursing home and companies specialising in cosmetic surgery, medical services and staff and medical construction development and property management. Why are they getting the intervention of the leader of the council on both planning applications? A search for Himalaya Palace is also hard to find on the council site. You have to look under Himalaya Cinema. Intriguingly the applicant was Mr Surjit Pandher, Director of Himalaya Carpets and Vice president of the British Sikh Association. Another big name in Southall. Another linked to Sharma?All 4 of these applications are in Sharma’s Southall constituancy and all applicants seem like high profile Southall business men with influence and wealth just like Sahota and likely to be of importance to Sharma. Are they big donors to Sharma’s campaign fund? Is Bell facilitating their planning applications because boss Sharma tells him to? Should Bell be working for Sharma? Was the Southall car park about pleasing businessmen who pledge support for Sharma? Is the leader of the council Sharma’s puppet?

Anthony Collingbourne ● 4612d