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Obviously Dick Dastardly does have friends

By The Basa ⋅ July 11, 2006 ⋅

It seems that potential leader of the City’s council, Trevor “(little) Dick Dastardly” Davies, the Planning convenor, has friends in interesting places because he is allowing Regenerate Scotland to continue their illegal business and make an application for retrospective planning permission for it’s recycling plant which has been operating for more than 18 months without the permission.

In what is seen as a classic case of you scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours Regenerate Scotland is getting the platinum card treatment from the council’s planning department. Regular readers will remember back in April the Council were actually using this site for recycling and were considering transferring all the work at Powderhall to that site. In fact we were the first to inform that the Powderhall facility was moving all their plant equipment to Regenerate Scotland’s site, the workers in the cleansing department were up in arms and the councillors denied all knowledge of it.

Our source, a senior officer within the Cleansing Department (Service for Communities) told us:

“There is no way that this scale of operation could happen without the knowledge of senior councillors as was reported in tonight’s Evening News. Do you really believe that council-owned equipment and council workers would go to work with a private company with the council footing the wage bill and no councillors had OK’d this.”

The source continued “The pilot project would have had to have the backing of some committee - for all the councillors to say that they knew nothing about this and every rank and file member of the Cleansing knew - that is just a load of what the Evening News called rubbish but we call sh*t.”

Back then the Evening News informed us:

It is understood Regenerate Scotland, a recycling business based in Bath Road, is expecting to carry out a month-long pilot of the proposals starting in mid-May.

So how come Trevor ‘(little) Dick Dastardly’ Davies’ department allows this company to now apply for planning permission after all this time of working illegally. Surely this company should be fined massive amounts of money, but then again, it has maybe already been paid in weighty brown envelopes - anybody know?

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