Perry Harlen letter 21 April: This is an amazing revelation. The Mayor/the then Councillors/and the Directors of the CCO should be held accountable and pay the price or go to prison.
I had a horrendous experience with TCC from 2009 and 2010.
They took me to Court and hounded me mercilessly with the threat of $200,000 fines x 2 =$400,000 or have four years imprisonment for noncompliance with the Resource Management Act and the Building Code. Their Lawyers (CLM) told me and I quote 'people have to realise that Council is serious about compliance and you are being made an example of” . They would not wait until I recovered from serious cancer surgery, even tho they had letters from my Doctor and Surgeon, they just ruthlessly attacked. They demanded I plead guilty and 'they would reduce the number of charges... but I will have to agree to pay the legal bill of approx $14,000.”
I refused of course. I lost the sale of my property because Council Officers told a prospective purchaser that quote.. ' We are suing for in excess of $400,000...and he will lose the property”.
When I wrote a letter to all the Councillors only three replied and only one actually helped. Since my terrible experience I have learned of two other people having had similar vicious attacks against them by TCC.
If the Baypark story is true then those responsible should suffer the terrible stress of what they dish out to others and be treated as criminals.
They won't of course; because they will slide out of it.... Such is our corrupted system.
B Beckett, Bethlehem.