Walk Around Wales

		This is Ceri Morris, he is the Head of Planning & Public Protection at Neath-Port Talbot County Borough Council. On the 4th July 2021 we released the following video into the public domain with the conclusion that Ceri Morris is continuing to and has potentially murdered Glynneath residents to support the corrupt activities of the Neath-Port Talbot Council Planning Department. https://youtu.be/ZNR32GjgBqM
		Ceri Morris and a number of other public officials at Neath-Port Talbot Council including the Glynneath Councillors Simon Knoyle and Del Morgan were offered the following opportunity to dispute this conclusion....... This email is sent to you so that you have the opportunity to provide counter evidence to that presented in the video or to undertake an investigation into this allegation. The video is uploaded in response to the NPTC value "We will be open to challenge and will promote a culture of learning and innovation throughout our organisation" as stated in the NPTC Corporate Plan.
	84	We did not hear from any of the recipients of the email so we contacted the Chair of the relevant Scrutiny Committee and NPTC Councillor Steve Hunt, after a series of exchanges Councillor Hunt agreed to ask questions of the Planning Department on our behalf. We provided 5 questions in total relating to the historical and current planning applications and approvals at the site, all of which we directed towards Ceri Morris. The questions were uploaded to a web page so that background information, context and evidence could be accessed by all involved in the process. Councillor Hunt met with Ceri Morris and other public officials on 2 November 2021 and even though the public officials were aware of the questions in advance, they refused to answer and in the words of Councillor Hunt 'they were all singing off the same hymn sheet' in that the questions asked had previously been dealt with. A period of 3 months passed during which time, the Development Manager Steve Ball who was a driving force for corruption in the planning approval P2020/0195 left the job. We requested several updates from the Scrutiny Chair who stated that Ceri Morris refused to answer our questions.
		This video relates to the second question asked of Ceri Morris and specifically the planning approval P2020/0863 which Ceri Morris has refused to answer to the Scrutiny Chair. The result of this planning approval which has already taken place will potentially cause the deaths of Glynneath residents through the removal of the requirement for the testing of land that had been tested as contaminated previously in 2008 and also the day after the plans for P2020/0863 were submitted. Although submitted on 12 October 2020 the planning approval was not made until 18 March 2021 at which point 2 sets of contamination tests were available to consult but were ignored by the planning department, the planning committee were not involved in the approval.
		BACKGROUND INFO P2020/0863 was the variation of two conditions relating to the testing of contaminated land for the planning approval P2020/0195.
		If we refer to the report by the CLO at the P2020/0195 approval we will see that all previous testing had been inadequate at the site.
		If we refer to the type of study that would relate to the contamination testing at the site we will see that only a desk top study and intrusive testing at the site would take place. This would mean that because it was not recorded on a computer system that the site had for the majority of the last 80 years been a landfill site, firstly a domestic council one and then for industrial waste by the Cuddy Group Ltd, this information, submitted by residents and available in the County archives would be ignored. Resident testimonies such as those submitted by Nigel who lives overlooking the site, would not count, because they were not contained on a computer system.
		If we look at the actual council planning department application website, we will see that it only records 4 objections for P2020/0863. Yet I submitted 20 objections on behalf of our group for residents who had been excommunicated from council business because they did not have an email address in the middle of the pandemic.
		The purpose of the desk top study was to prevent relevant information from counting towards the application.
		The Local Development Plan in this instance also contributing to the inappropriate approval of the plans by completely misrepresenting the nature of the site. For the previous 80 years it had been split into two areas, landfill and wetlands, known locally as 'the tip' and 'the bog'
		The Planning Department and Committee were provided this information in several objections to the development and in my representation at the planning committee meeting on 8/9/2020. They were also provided evidence of how the planning department worked together with the Cuddy Group to avoid the contaminated land responsibilities in 2008 when they were provided a document for the meeting that included information left out by the planning department.
		See the Council of Death video on our YouTube Channel for this information.
		Over a period of 12-15 years NPTC failed to regulate the CuddyGroup in relation to their tipping and contaminated land responsibilities, This can be seen in the folowing YouTube video. https://youtu.be/IXqYRlqN2iA which shows a blatant misrepresentation by Steve Ball of the role of Natural Resources Wales in the planning process and of the planning conditions in relation to the development.