David Cockburn KCC: Parkway and council corruption

(email to David Cockburn KCC CEO 3/3/21 cc Parliament etc as below) Hi David I and others were surprised at an access road for Kent Parkway rail station planned for 15th March without notice/consultation. As you know from KCC's own research the Parkway was overwhelmingly rejected by the public and councillors. And any rail improvements were less than 90 seconds or so(!). Yes, seconds. It seems a massive KCC civil servant white elephant tarmac scheme again: £20M in Whitehall funds were spent on documents? And is it a leftover of the secret KCC attempts to develop Manston as London International airport with KCC quango funds for the Virginia flights that bellyflopped and resulted in the sacking of your predecessor? Can you halt any works at the site for a call-in review and please provide FOI/EIR documents/emails etc of costs/plans etc of this utterly ludicrous project. For clarity the East Kent aquifer for drinking water for 150k people is under the Manston/Parkway runway - please confirm pollution/cleanup since KCC Manston crashed in 2014 again. To be blunt, with KCC the most £100k salaries in local government if you're unable to control such absurd tarmac and corruption schemes on your £200k salary then you should resign and take your team with you. Separately can I raise TDC council corruption concerns at Pleasurama and Dreamland in KCC's area with millions of public funds as per the Seaborne fishy ferry scandal and Thor mercury. Most recently £600k of staff gagging orders by CEO Homer and lawyer Howes on a c.£20M budget without councillor approval. I can't see how they can continue in their lavish £120k posts with such shenanigans. I am also extremely concerned at the abysmal KCC Public Health failure on covid: 3 Kent districts in the UK top 10, Kent's own variant spreading globally and repeated NHS scandals eg EK baby deaths: please advise of a review. I presume heads will roll not a slap on the wrist or lessons learned inaction? A summary of deaths would be useful and the normal -high - KCC Winter excess deaths. Manston and Thor contamination and corporate manslaughter issues aside and my Kent Police and Crime Commissioner bid and manifesto, with UNCOP26 nearing can you summarise £2BN KCC plans on Climate Change especially Dungeness nukes and Channel ships pollution. On a more mundane note the main roads and verges into Ramsgate are filthy with litter - not flytipping/dumping - just normal flyblown litter how quickly can these be cleaned please: Veolia used to do it and potholes rather well. Police patrol car reporting too? Could you also clarify yet another highest ever automatic 5% council tax rise presumably covering such waste and failure. Obviously the 5% is a cap not a bloat aim to be achieved each year. Please advise. Copy to KCC cllrs, MPs, Kent Police and NAO. Copy on my PCC blog. Tim @timg33