All 4 East Kent Councils paid P & R for fraudulent Gas Safety Certificates
Yesterday -27th June 2019 Dover District Council Governance Committee met and part of the agenda pack at pages 18 and 19 states:
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Discussions were started with the contractor (P & R) in August 2018 regarding a repayment (overcharging) relating to new heating installations. Discussions regarding amounts charged in respect of electrical certificates, smoke alarms, CO detectors, TRVs, voids and water hygiene have been raised with the contractor and it is now proposed that the value of these be set-off against outstanding payments and future valuations. The EKH Chief Executive and Director of Property Services have been in contact with the four councils’ client officers since May 2018 regarding the contracts and more recently have been seeking their views on the way forward.
So it is abundantly clear that P & R (the contractor owned by Bilby Plc) overcharged all four East Kent Councils of Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe and Thanet, who own East Kent Housing. P & R charged the four Councils for fraudulent LGSR’s (Gas Safety Certificates) and the Councils paid the invoices once they were submitted. Hence why once again we call on all four Chief Execs of the Council to resign
Yet in an FoI response to our public face from Canterbury, Dover and Folkestone & Hythe, the Councils have stated :
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Under section 17(4) of the Act, the Council neither confirms nor denies whether it holds the information you have requested.
Dogged determination by the Velvet Voices of Dissent over the P & R issue. More than a year’s work. Congratulations on all you have achieved.
I live on Romney Marsh in an East Kent Housing managed property. At a Tenant meeting I personally informed Deborah Upton Chief Executive of EKH about my forged Gas Safety Certificate. There were a good number of witnesses to this fact.
To this date nothing has been done about it. It has caused me considerable distress and anxiety that I am living with a boiler which is still non-compliant.
I work, I pay my rent on time and this is how I am treated. It’s disgusting.