Councillor Haworth freely distributes private correspondence from Director of Inclusive Design Ltd
about a resident in his Oakham ward.
The following private email sent to Cllr Charles Haworth was sent to Former Oakham Mayor Cllr Jim
Harrison who distributed it to Rutland County Council staff, Melton Borough Council staff and members
of the public.
Cllr Haworth was once an an employee of Melton Borough Council and Rutland County Council
The Cllr should resign what right does he have to distribute such personal information about residents
in his ward.
Is it also right for a Company Director to be sending a Town Councillor so much information to
a demented and vindictive Homophobic Town Councillor, (client confidentiality?)
(and poor Mr Begy) the final comment in the email, yes poor Mr Begy Conservative Leader of Rutland
County Council who had just been found guilty by Standards for England for misconduct against that
resident. but unlike the criminal courts they could not take into consideration the 16 previous complaints
about his disgusting conduct.
I wonder why the firm was interested in Cllr Haworth's Anti Semitic comments he posted
on the Rutland Chat Forum about that resident.
> Subject: RE: Rutland Chat Forum
> Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:35:11
> +0000
> From: esmith@inclusive-design.co.uk
> To:
> charleshaworth@hotmail.co.uk
>
>
>
>
> Dear Mr
> Haworth
>
> Thank
> you very much for all the information which you sent me. I obtained the
> details for the Rutland chat room address from a copy of an e mail Ms
> ##### sent to my solicitor in which she accuses you (by name and
> with the
> nickname Lardboy) of posting on the forum comments about poking her
> eyes out
> . In the same e mail she inferred that we had somehow been responsible
> for take away food wrappers and bags of sand being deposited in her
> garden. As our case with ######## is still ongoing I was
> interested to see what the actual comments on the forum had been and the
> context in which they had been written. If nothing more, most of her
> diatribe is fairly amusing, if you don't take it
> seriously!
>
> Our case
> with ####### should have been very simple. She appointed us as
> Chartered Architects to design for her a flats complex on the land
> containing
> and at the rear of her home. She had originally hoped that she would be
> able to build a 13 flat complex, which from the beginning was highly
> unlikely. She had previously seen another complex which we had designed
> in Oakham, and in that location the numbers of flats were high for the
> area,
> but the site was adjoined on all sides by open land or car parks.
> All preliminary discussions with the council (which as you probably know
> are very normal and routine) suggested that they would not be happy
> for such a
> large development to be built on her site, mainly due to overlooking
> issues. If she had built out the seven unit complex (which the Council
> Planners liked) she would have been looking at a clear profit of well
> over
> £200,000. We also introduced her to a developer with whom we have worked
> before, who offered her £300,00 for the land. However, she wanted a
> larger profit margin than that scheme or his offer allowed and she
> decided to
> fire our company and not pay us a penny for all the design work
> undertaken.
>
> As is
> usual for professional companies we tried everything we could to avoid
> court
> proceedings against her, we even offered to reduce our fee to just
> cover our
> costs in order to make the case go away. Unfortunately ########
> would not agree any terms whatsoever and we took her to court for non
> payment
> of our invoice. She lost the case and was ordered to pay us our full fee
> and our solicitor's and barrister's costs. She then tried to raise an
> appeal against the finding but was refused permission to appeal in a
> further
> court hearing. She paid our fee and the initial court costs and we
> assumed (in our innocence) that that would be the end of the matter.
> However, she then took both Mark (my business partner) and myself to
> court on
> charges of fraud. The judge in that case said she had never seen a case
> with less merit come before her, and declared ######## to be a
> vexatious litigant, and told us that should she try to bring any further
> proceedings against us then we would be in our rights to have a
> restraining
> order taken out against her. ### lost the case and was ordered to pay all
> our costs again. However, to date the costs remain unpaid and our
> solicitor has placed a charging order on her house in order to recover
> these
> monies. We have subsequently been made aware that before we
> took her case, she appointed a Mr Barrand, an Architect in your local
> area to
> design her an extension, but she didn't like what he produced and
> fired him
> unpaid. After she fired us, she also went to Wells Macfarlane and tried
> to treat them similarly. Fortunately Mr Barrand was able to warn them
> and I believe they lost very little money. We also know that Heggerty
> & Co (her solicitor from the original court case) also took her to court
> to be released as her council as she would not take any of their
> advise to
> settle the claim, and then subsequently to obtain payment of their
> fee. Heaven only knows how many other businesses she has employed
> and fired without payment over the years.
>
> She
> initiated investigations against Mark (our MD) with the Royal
> Institute of
> British Architects and the Architects Registration Board, against Tony
> (our
> senior technologist) with the Chartered Institute for Architectural
> Technologists and against James (our solicitor) with the Law Society,
> claiming
> he was in league with us to defraud her of her land. She even took out
> complaint procedures against one of the ladies at the ARB who refused to
> disclose the name and details of our professional indemnity insurers
> (something a client is absolutely not entitled to know). In each case
> the complaints were dismissed as unfounded. I understand that she is now
> in a complaints procedure against the Police, for not investigating
> further
> the allegations regarding the insults on the forum.
>
> Over the
> years she has accused us of almost every type of deception and fraudulent
> dealing, all of which is totally untrue. To my certain knowledge no-one
> from my company or indeed myself said anything, anywhere, in any court
> proceeding or at any other time which was not totally
> truthful. She has accused us of deliberately trying to get
> her out of her house, but we are not property developers, we are
> Architects
> and have no desire whatsoever to obtain her property.
>
>
> This
> morning I received a letter from the Bank of Ireland informing me that
> they
> are to commence proceedings in the County Court to obtain possession
> of her
> property, and I am truly sorry that she has been so stupid and run
> herself
> into so much debt that she will now lose her house. I suppose I should
> feel glad that she is getting what she deserves after all the
> heartache she
> has caused myself and my colleagues, but in reality I just think it is
> very
> sad.
>
> As you
> will see from the above you are not the only person on the receiving
> end of ###### malice and i hope that you (and poor Mr Begy) can forget
> all about
> her over the next few weeks and have a peaceful and very happy
> Christmas.
>
> With
> best wishes
>
> Elaine
>
>
> Elaine Smith
> Inclusive Design Limited
> 0115
> 988 1978
>
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