This is not an allegation of wrongdoing. It is a public-interest article asking for clarity about public assets, public decisions, and public money. Shropshire Council and the Promise of Transparency Shropshire Council says it remains committed to transparency. Splendid. In that case, what follows should be very easy to answer. Material supplied to The AlternativeContinue reading “Cornovii, Kettel and the Questions Shropshire Council Now Ought to Answer”
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Planning for Profit
Who Shropshire’s Housebuilding Boom Is Really For There is something almost touching about the way large housing developments are sold to the public in Shropshire. A field is selected. A map appears. A developer starts speaking in that warm, managerial tone about “meeting need”. Councillors murmur about “balance”. Officers reach for policy references and beginContinue reading “Planning for Profit”
Cornovii: The Supervisors, the Directors, and the Question That Will Not Go Away
At yesterday’s Shropshire Council meeting, a question from a member of the public, Andrew Sceats cut through several years of carefully managed explanation surrounding Cornovii Developments Ltd. Mr Sceats asked why many residents had been left with the impression that Shropshire Council would receive financial returns from Cornovii not only through land sales, but alsoContinue reading “Cornovii: The Supervisors, the Directors, and the Question That Will Not Go Away”
THE £37 MILLION CIL QUESTION
THE GREAT SHROPSHIRE CIL SWINDLE (ALLEGEDLY, BUT YOU KNOW…) You’ve hopefully had a good chuckle during The Elephant in the Room series — the vanishing FOIs, the disappearing councillors, the council-owned companies that behave like Russian dolls with a drinking problem. But now, dear reader, the humour gives way to the hard questions. Because behindContinue reading “THE £37 MILLION CIL QUESTION”
The Elephant Has Company: Cornovii and the House of Cards
Welcome to Shropshire, where the houses are public, the risks are private, and the only thing commercial is the branding. Let me introduce you to Cornovii Developments Ltd, Cornovii Investments Ltd, and STAR Housing — a trilogy of publicly owned entities with overlapping leadership, shared liabilities, and a striking ability to shuffle assets faster thanContinue reading “The Elephant Has Company: Cornovii and the House of Cards”
Shropshire Council’s Elephant in the Room
The beast arrives, sits on your wallet, and asks for a tip. Let’s talk about the animal nobody’s feeding but everyone’s funding.It’s grey, immovable — and financed on your credit card. The new pastime Shropshire has a new pastime: building houses with your land and your money, then calling it “commercial”. The developer has aContinue reading “Shropshire Council’s Elephant in the Room”