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Wednesday, 23 March 2016

Planning in Barnet - The conflict of interest that is Capita in Barnet

There is a huge conflict of interest in the way Barnet Council have allowed plannig to be run lock, stock and two smoking barrells by Capita. I was going to write a blog, following the latest scandal, but then Dr Julia Hines reminded me, in a series of tweets that we've already covered this in detail with a series of excellent guest blogs. So here are a series of tweets from Julia and the links that show that everything she predicted has come to pass. The first is a link to a story on the Hendon Times detailing the latest scandal.

‏@JuliaHines

'The jury, the judge and the executioner' - Barnet Council's planning team criticised http://www.times-series.co.uk/news/14373784._The_jury__the_judge_and_the_executioner____Barnet_Council_s_planning_team_criticised/?ref=twtrec …

‏@JuliaHines

My 1st blog on potential conflicts for @BarnetCouncil & Re in 2011 http://barneteye.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/guest-blog-planning-to-outsource.html … I wrote to my councillors at the time too.

‏@JuliaHines

My 1st blog on potential conflicts for @BarnetCouncil & Re in 2011 http://barneteye.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/guest-blog-planning-to-outsource.html … I wrote to my councillors at the time too.

Barnet Councillors can have no excuses for allowing this to happen. Julia is the highly respected chair of Age UK Barnet. The reason we write blogs is to try and protect our council from bad decisions. Sadly our councillors are not interested in listening.

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