WELL IT IS DOWN TO THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER OF IPSWICH BOROUGH COUNCIL, JAMES HEHIR NOW.
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It is over 6 weeks now since I received the post card from James Hehir. This past week I have been in regular telephone contact with his office and I have been lied to. Yes that is correct, the Chief Executive of Ipswichs Office has lied to me with various excuses and blatant lies. I have been told a letter was posted to me a week ago. Then I was told it may have been lost in the internal postage system but another copy would be sent to me by e-mail and a copy of the hard copy would also be sent to me. That was pure unadulterated lying as no e-mails or hard copies ever arrived so if ever you think you are being lied to by James Hehirs office you are probably correct in your thinking. My original complaint was about disability access to Bridge Wood and then about Foot Paths being unlawfully blocked. The correspondence is below for all to see.
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The reply was probably seen as a bit of a lark and passed around the office for a giggle.
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I then wrote to Tracey Lee and finally to James Hehir,

Mr James Hehir 26th July 06
Chief ExecutiveIpswich Borough Council
Fax: (01473) 432522
Dear Mr James Hehir,
I am disabled as is my wife and we cannot access many of the footpaths around what used to be the old airport because they have been blocked by IBC.
I have spent many months trying to get this issue settled through AndySheppard and Steve Hunt and eventually through Tracey Lee.
I went back to Andy Sheppard for one final attempt to get this matter sorted but I just received a complete lack of understanding from them and some pretty silly excuses.
Tracey Lee, in her letter to me dated 29th June 06 Referenced TL/sprhas told me that before I take this matter to the local government Ombudsman I have to refer it to you and that is the reason for this letter.My wife and I cannot access any of the gates erected across footpaths by IBC at Bridgewood/Brazierswood and Ravenswood and we feel we arebeing discriminate under the provisions of the DDA.
Further more I am certain that many of these gates are illegal in another way and that they obstruct footpaths.
Will you please look into this matter while we still have some summer left in which to enjoy the countryside we have used for the last 60 odd years?
Yours sincerely

That letter resulted in the Post Card at the top of this page followed by a load of lies by a lady whose name I will keep off the record for now. I am doing this in the full glare of the public because there is an arrangement whereby the matter can be sorted out between the Ombudsmans office and IBC without reference to me to save a report being made which is not what most councils want. They want everything to be kept quiet.
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