Conservative Deputy Leader Cllr Terry King, Rutland County Council, Oakham Enterprise Park, Cllr Dewis, Oakham Town Council

Conservative Deputy Leader Cllr Terry King, Rutland County Council, Tax Payers 

Money Is All Mine

If I want to spend 106 contributions from a Oakham Development in the 

neighbouring parish of Ashwell supporting my friends sports club as

the council has done for many years I will.

When I first met Cllr King back in 2010 he came running towards me like

a fierce old tiger pointing his finger, Over the years I have learnt he really

is just a cute little old pussy cat and I now know what the plastic bag is

used for!

At a recent council meeting the subject Oakham Enterprise Park the former prison was

raised, Tory leader Roger Begy said "don't believe all you read on blogs" so does that mean 

we can not believe the facts and figures the council has made available which I published below?

The Oakham Enterprise Park is cost a fortune with very little return.

So many problems, tenants don't even pay the service charge.

It is a fact, this year the costs would  have put the project over budget. 

Of course this did not worry the Rutland Tories they just found a  found a pot 

of tax payers money and  increased the budget considerable at a cabinet meeting 

just in time. The first year there was a small underspend.

Cllr Kings Oakham Enterprise Park in Ashwell is of no benefit to Oakham. 

Most of the tenants have moved out of Oakham leaving behind vacant premises.

Cllr Kings team have even poached a tenant from Oakham Town Council.

The tenants of the gym located in Princess Avenue Oakham are set to move

out in January 2015 after Cllr King's team have negotiated a deal. 

This is a total disgrace as these people known to Cllr Alf Dewis had a quarter of 

the town councils income spent on them to assist their start up of the gym. 

They had two official openings, the first carried out by Cllr Alf Dewis who was Mayor 

at the time and then a few weeks later the High Sheriff of Rutland repeated the opening. 

All to gain free publicity through the local press.

The property in Princess Avenue was valued by Stephen Reed before

it was restored, he gave it a rental value of £12,000 a year.

As I have said before the tenants pay a lot less rent. 

The tenants now want to use their early get out clause contained in the lease. 

Even if they had stayed the full term, the rent would not have covered 

the councils expenditure. Cllr Alf Dewis once said it was a profitable

arrangement. Profitable for who for? certainly not the tax payer. 

I wonder what beneficial deal Cllr Kings team have offered them. 

Is this pay back due to the time Cllr Dewis described Cllr Kings former prison 

site as his big white elephant?

Recently Cllr Dewis made comments at meeting suggesting to another

councillor twice the gym could now be demolished!

So after spending over £60,000 of tax payers money less than two years ago 

Cllr Dewis feels it might be fine to spend another chunk on demolition.

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