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Both Simon Knoyle and Del Morgan have been aware since 20 April 2020 that the Neath Port Talbot Council potentially breached the 1990 Environmental Protection Act in 2010 when the planning department hid a test and risk assessment that identified carcinogens in soil and potential health hazards to residents bordering the site. In the comments section of this video you will find two extracts that are from emails to the NPT Council Leader Rob Jones, both emails were copied to Simon Knoyle and Del Morgan and both emails were replied to by the Council Leader who also copied in Simon Knoyle and Del Morgan. 

https://youtu.be/IXqYRlqN2iA

We see during this video how Steve Ball has worked closely with Del Morgan and Simon Knoyle to push through this application.

EVIDENCE 1

EXTRACT 1 (20 April 2020 - email to Council Leader copied to Del Morgan & Simon Knoyle)

Dear Councillor Jones, 

EVIDENCE OF CONTAMINATED LAND (2008) PROVIDED TO NPTC - 5/4/2020 

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION - 5/4/2020 

The email of this date was directed to Councillor Del Morgan and your planning department and we asked the following question: "…please can you both provide evidence of how you worked together to ensure the removal of the land identified as contaminated in 2008 from the same area?" 

INFORMATION PROVIDED BY NPTC 

We have yet to hear from Councillor Del Morgan of Glynneath but Steve Ball of your planning department has replied with the following statement on behalf of the NPTC: "You also refer to the 2008 ground investigation which concluded that there was evidence of contamination. In response, I would wish to emphasise that the presence of contamination on sites is incredibly common on land within Neath Port Talbot, and this matter is routinely addressed in consultation with our specialists on land contamination matters, as well as in responses from Natural Resources Wales (NRW). In this respect it is important to understand that the presence of contamination does not make land “a danger to residents”. The planning officer neglects to reference or provide any information with regard to a 2008 ground investigation; and launches directly into his personal opinions ("I would wish to emphasise") and present day generic processes ("in consultation with") about contaminated land; therefore, until evidence is provided otherwise, we have assumed that your council did nothing about the contaminated land that was identified in the previously mentioned 2008 survey. His personal opinion that the land is not “a danger to residents” conflicts with the evidence submitted in the 2008 report on the land which states the potential receptors are neighbouring site users and passers-by. This being the case, the following carcinogens (Benzo[a]pyrene and Arsenic) are still present at the site. 

FURTHER INFORMATION REFUSED (TWICE) As you will see from the above response to the question asked, the planning officer Steve Ball avoided the relevant question. The question was about the actions of the planning department and County Councillor Del Morgan in 2008, whereas the answers were his personal opinions and the current 2020 processes of the planning department. Later in this email he refused to provide further information on the subject should we request it: "I also trust that the above detailed response covers matters raised to date, and that you will be able to restrict further communications to representations raising your main issues of your concerns relating to the application in question." (Steve Ball, NPTC Planning Officer email dated 9/4/2020) This follows on from his previous refusal to provide information on 2/4/2020 "I must advise that we will no longer be able to respond to your requests for information or respond to your questions." (Steve Ball, NPTC Planning Officer email dated 2/4/2020) This is the reason why, as the council leader we copied you to the directed question on 5/4/2020; so that you could either provide an answer yourself or delegate the responsibility down the council chain of command because the Page 2 of 4 21/03/2021 appropriate department had refused to answer it. 

NPTC CODE OF CONDUCT I would refer you at this point to the reply of that email by the Planning Officer, Steve Ball and also to the NPT Council "Policy Statement and General Principles of Code of Conduct" which states: "The public is entitled to expect the highest standards of conduct from all employees…… The role of such employees is to serve the Authority in providing advice, implementing its policies, and delivering services to the local community. In performing their duties, they must act with integrity, honesty, impartiality and objectivity. Public confidence in the Authority and in an employee's integrity would be shaken if the least suspicion were to arise that an employee could in any way be influenced by improper motives." Openly ignoring and refusing to address our legitimate concerns regarding planning at Heol Y Glyn brings into question the planning departments integrity, impartiality and objectivity. This behaviour constitutes a breach of your code of conduct and erodes our confidence in the council. We should expect that in future communications that our concerns are not ignored in the same way the concerns regarding contamination have other issues been systematically ignored in the past. 

NPTC LEGAL REQUIREMENT & PUBLIC PROTECTION STATEMENT To refer back to the Environment Protection Act 1990 and also your Environment Strategy publication also dated 2008 which states that the NPTC have had a legal responsibility towards contaminated land since 2001. It is recorded that you also had a Contaminated Land Team in situ in 2008. In the "What we will do" section relating to contaminated land, your council said in 2008 that your aim was: "To identify, remove and prevent significant harm occurring from contaminated land to people, property, animals and the environment" This publication also states that: "Council owned and privately owned land are always treated in the same manner." This being the case, it would seem from the planning department's response to the question is that they have provided evidence of negligence within that department. That is; in 2008, the NPTC Planning Department failed to report identified contaminated land to the Contaminated Land Team. Page 3 of 4 21/03/2021 We would welcome a response from the Neath-Port Talbot Council leader and also the Glynneath Town Council leader (copied to this email) on: • What (if any) procedures were in place for the planning department to report contaminated land to the appropriate department or relevant authorities in 2008? • We would also request any evidence to suggest that these guidelines were followed or any evidence that the contamination was dealt with and/or investigated if at all? • If no evidence can be provided we would like the council's response as to what can be done to remediate this? • What steps will now be taken to properly investigate and record the contamination? • Finally what steps the council will now take to remediate the contamination at this land? We would also welcome an answer to the previously unanswered question directed to Councillor Del Morgan and the Planning Department: • "… please can you both provide evidence of how you worked together to ensure the removal of the land identified as contaminated in 2008 from the same area?" regards - Dai Richards 

cc - Cllr Haulwen Jones (Glynneath Town Council) to this email for the purpose of printing this information and placing it on record with the Glynneath Town Council. In the interest of public awareness we have placed this email on-line at the following web address, the links on this page provide evidence of the information we have provided you in this email: 

http://www.walk-around-wales.com/county/npt/glynneath/enzo-development/correspondence/nptcleader.htm 

EVIDENCE 2

EXTRACT 2 (15 May 2020 - Email to Council Leader Rob Jones copied to Del Morgan & Simon Knoyle)

Dear Council Leader,

I now have enough evidence from the chain our correspondence with your council planning department and the actual planning department records to confirm my inference that the NPTC planning department have contravened the Environmental Protection Act 1990. What is clear from this chain of communication is that members of your council are aware of this and have attempted a cover up of misconduct/malpractice and possible corruption.

HISTORY
We wrote to you previously as the council leader because your council is failing in its purpose to serve us as a group of residents of this area. We requested relevant information to help us understand the planning history of the Enzo site.

You in turn ignored our request for this information and passed our request on to your Head of Planning and Public Protection, Ceri Morris who has treated an information request as a complaint. (despite our refusal to complain). It is clear that he has done so in order to refuse to provide this information and avoid me entering the complaints process in the correct manner.

The Head of Planning and Public Protection has provided us with a copy of his report (authored by Steve Ball) and we can see from his report however that although it is an extensive communication, your council's protocols of providing personal opinions, avoiding relevant questions and refusing further communication are still in evidence which confirm the complete lack of integrity of Mr Morris who has signed the communication.

FAILURE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION
Your council are still refusing to provide any evidence of having followed the correct procedures following the identification of contaminated land in 2008. We reference the information release allegedly written by Ceri Morris:

1. It refers to but does not deal with the evidence we provided you of the deliberate avoidance of the 2008 contaminated land identification question we asked the planning officer Steve Ball.

2. It refers to but does not answer any of the questions we asked you in our email of 28/4/2020.

COUNCIL OF DEATH

The report by Ceri Morris of the planning department provides evidence of a disregard for human life by referencing the carcinogens Arsenic and Benzo[a]pyrene as "low level contamination" I refer to an extract from his email which states:

"I note that the Geo-Technical and Geo-Environmental Report to which you refer, which supported planning application P2008/1462, did find low levels of contamination"

We would assume that being a planning officer as opposed to a toxicologist, Ceri Morris who has signed the letter is not an expert on the carcinogenic properties of Arsenic and Benzo[a]pyrene and their effects on the human body. A scientific paper on the US National Library of Medicine by Zahir Ur Rehman et al states that:

"There is no evidence that Arsenic is essential for human health and its exposure has been linked to severe health complications such as hyperkeratosis, gangrene, hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, melnosis, keratosis, bladder and internal cancers and also its carcinogenic consequences on skin and lungs."

Arsenic causes cancer both internally and externally, what is clear to us is that the complexities of the human body and its interaction with the chemical elements including carcinogens such as Arsenic and Benzo[a]pyrene should be left to the experts in the field of toxicology not the personal opinions of the Neath-Port Talbot Council Planning Department.

It should also be noted that from 2010 onwards and including the present day application the contaminated land identified in the 2008 application has not been referenced by the NPTC planning department in any way. Remediation of the contaminated land cannot be found in any of the conditions and there is no evidence of remediation having taken place before 2010. In 2010, the planning department allowed the Cuddy group to submit a new geo-technical survey without any chemical testing. The contaminated land including the carcinogens Arsenic and Benzo[a]pyrene has clearly been hidden by the planning department for the last 11 years and it would have remained hidden if we hadn't provided evidence of its existence.

What is clear from the information available is that your council has hidden the contaminated land information thereby leaving these grade one carcinogens to be moved around at leisure by the Cuddy Group. Some of this land was moved to less than 20 meters away from my house and I had to personally confront the driver of an earth moving machine to prevent it being moved closer.

What is also clear from the planning history is that the planning department have approved further tipping on the site and considering that classified grade 1 carcinogens had already been tipped there; this provides further evidence of a complete disregard for the lives of the local residents.

To confirm the information we have just provided you with:

1. The geo-technical report conducted in 2008 containing the information about classified grade 1 carcinogens being present at the site was never referenced again. The planning department failed to report the contaminated land which they were bound to do according to your Contaminated Land Strategy and the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

2. In 2010, the planning department changed one of the conditions to allow the Cuddy Group a delay in providing a new geo-technical report which was eventually completed by a different company without the chemical testing. This delay in a new survey allowed the Cuddy Group to continue to tip industrial waste and poison. Allowing a new report without chemical testing is clear evidence of the deliberate attempt by your planning department to cover up the existence of contaminated land thereby endangering the lives of local residents.

You should also be aware that I have additional incriminating information not provided in this communication.

The above actions and the current cover up actions by the members of the planning department of your council would indicate that they are guilty of at least the criminal offence 'Misconduct in Public Office'. I would suggest that you appoint someone outside of your organisation to investigate the activities of this department who seem to place themselves above the law. The planning department of your council have for at least the last 11 years deliberately endangered the lives of the 300-400 residents of this area. If you fail to act on this information you are also guilty of the criminal offence 'Misconduct in Public Office'.

END OF EXTRACTS

That the Glynneath Town Council have failed to investigate further or undertake due diligence to investigate a potential breach of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act is a clear indication that the Glynneath Town Council have clearly failed in their DUTY OF CARE to the residents of East Glynneath

The Glynneath Town Council have been aware since 20 April 2020 that the Neath Port Talbot Council potentially breached the 1990 Environmental Protection Act in 2010 when the planning department hid a test and risk assessment that identified carcinogens in soil and potential health hazards to residents bordering the site. The following two extracts are from emails to the NPT Council Leader Rob Jones, both emails were copied to Simon Knoyle and Del Morgan and both emails were replied to by the Council Leader who also copied in Simon Knoyle and Del Morgan. The first email was copied to Haulwen Morgan and it was requested that she place the information on file with the Glynneath Town Council for future reference. 

The contents of this video prove that the Glynneath Town Council are hiding significant and relevant information from the residents of Glynneath.

That the Glynneath Town Council have failed to investigate further or undertake due diligence to investigate a potential breach of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act is a clear indication that the Glynneath Town Council have clearly failed in their DUTY OF CARE to the residents of East Glynneath.

EXTRACT 1 (20 April 2020)

Dear Councillor Jones, 

We would like to formally raise our concerns regarding the historical handling of contamination at Heol Y Glyn, Glynneath; in which we believe that the council has not upheld its responsibilities with relation to the Environmental Protection Act 1990: "Every local authority shall cause its area to be inspected from time to time for the purpose- (a) of identifying contaminated land; and (b) of enabling the authority to decide whether any such land is land which is required to be designated as a special site." 

EVIDENCE OF CONTAMINATED LAND (2008) PROVIDED TO NPTC - 5/4/2020 

In an email dated 5/4/2020, to which you were copied, we provided you with evidence from the Geo-Technical and Geo-Enviromental Report (prepared for Moore Knight Limited) and submitted to your planning department for planning application P2008/1462; that the ground on the proposed Enzo development (P2020/0195); was in 2008 found to be contaminated. The potential receptors for this contamination included neighbouring site users (local residents) and passers-by (local residents out walking, cycling, tourists to the area etc). Two of those contaminants, Benzo[a]pyrene and Arsenic are classified as grade 1 carcinogens; which means they can cause cancer. 

REQUEST FOR INFORMATION - 5/4/2020 

The email of this date was directed to Councillor Del Morgan and your planning department and we asked the following question: "…please can you both provide evidence of how you worked together to ensure the removal of the land identified as contaminated in 2008 from the same area?" 

INFORMATION PROVIDED BY NPTC 

We have yet to hear from Councillor Del Morgan of Glynneath but Steve Ball of your planning department has replied with the following statement on behalf of the NPTC: "You also refer to the 2008 ground investigation which concluded that there was evidence of contamination. In response, I would wish to emphasise that the presence of contamination on sites is incredibly common on land within Neath Port Talbot, and this matter is routinely addressed in consultation with our specialists on land contamination matters, as well as in responses from Natural Resources Wales (NRW). In this respect it is important to understand that the presence of contamination does not make land “a danger to residents”. The planning officer neglects to reference or provide any information with regard to a 2008 ground investigation; and launches directly into his personal opinions ("I would wish to emphasise") and present day generic processes ("in consultation with") about contaminated land; therefore, until evidence is provided otherwise, we have assumed that your council did nothing about the contaminated land that was identified in the previously mentioned 2008 survey. His personal opinion that the land is not “a danger to residents” conflicts with the evidence submitted in the 2008 report on the land which states the potential receptors are neighbouring site users and passers-by. This being the case, the following carcinogens (Benzo[a]pyrene and Arsenic) are still present at the site. 

FURTHER INFORMATION REFUSED (TWICE) As you will see from the above response to the question asked, the planning officer Steve Ball avoided the relevant question. The question was about the actions of the planning department and County Councillor Del Morgan in 2008, whereas the answers were his personal opinions and the current 2020 processes of the planning department. Later in this email he refused to provide further information on the subject should we request it: "I also trust that the above detailed response covers matters raised to date, and that you will be able to restrict further communications to representations raising your main issues of your concerns relating to the application in question." (Steve Ball, NPTC Planning Officer email dated 9/4/2020) This follows on from his previous refusal to provide information on 2/4/2020 "I must advise that we will no longer be able to respond to your requests for information or respond to your questions." (Steve Ball, NPTC Planning Officer email dated 2/4/2020) This is the reason why, as the council leader we copied you to the directed question on 5/4/2020; so that you could either provide an answer yourself or delegate the responsibility down the council chain of command because the Page 2 of 4 21/03/2021 appropriate department had refused to answer it. 

NPTC CODE OF CONDUCT I would refer you at this point to the reply of that email by the Planning Officer, Steve Ball and also to the NPT Council "Policy Statement and General Principles of Code of Conduct" which states: "The public is entitled to expect the highest standards of conduct from all employees…… The role of such employees is to serve the Authority in providing advice, implementing its policies, and delivering services to the local community. In performing their duties, they must act with integrity, honesty, impartiality and objectivity. Public confidence in the Authority and in an employee's integrity would be shaken if the least suspicion were to arise that an employee could in any way be influenced by improper motives." Openly ignoring and refusing to address our legitimate concerns regarding planning at Heol Y Glyn brings into question the planning departments integrity, impartiality and objectivity. This behavior constitutes a breach of your code of conduct and erodes our confidence in the council. We should expect that in future communications that our concerns are not ignored in the same way the concerns regarding contamination have other issues been systematically ignored in the past. 

NPTC LEGAL REQUIREMENT & PUBLIC PROTECTION STATEMENT To refer back to the Environment Protection Act 1990 and also your Environment Strategy publication also dated 2008 which states that the NPTC have had a legal responsibility towards contaminated land since 2001. It is recorded that you also had a Contaminated Land Team in situ in 2008. In the "What we will do" section relating to contaminated land, your council said in 2008 that your aim was: "To identify, remove and prevent significant harm occurring from contaminated land to people, property, animals and the environment" This publication also states that: "Council owned and privately owned land are always treated in the same manner." This being the case, it would seem from the planning department's response to the question is that they have provided evidence of negligence within that department. That is; in 2008, the NPTC Planning Department failed to report identified contaminated land to the Contaminated Land Team. Page 3 of 4 21/03/2021 We would welcome a response from the Neath-Port Talbot Council leader and also the Glynneath Town Council leader (copied to this email) on: • What (if any) procedures were in place for the planning department to report contaminated land to the appropriate department or relevant authorities in 2008? • We would also request any evidence to suggest that these guidelines were followed or any evidence that the contamination was dealt with and/or investigated if at all? • If no evidence can be provided we would like the council's response as to what can be done to remediate this? • What steps will now be taken to properly investigate and record the contamination? • Finally what steps the council will now take to remediate the contamination at this land? We would also welcome an answer to the previously unanswered question directed to Councillor Del Morgan and the Planning Department: • "… please can you both provide evidence of how you worked together to ensure the removal of the land identified as contaminated in 2008 from the same area?" regards - Dai Richards 

cc - Cllr Haulwen Jones (Glynneath Town Council) to this email for the purpose of printing this information and placing it on record with the Glynneath Town Council. In the interest of public awareness we have placed this email on-line at the following web address, the links on this page provide evidence of the information we have provided you in this email: 

http://www.walk-around-wales.com/county/npt/glynneath/enzo-development/correspondence/nptcleader.htm 

EXTRACT 2 (15 May 2020)

Dear Council Leader,

I now have enough evidence from the chain our correspondence with your council planning department and the actual planning department records to confirm my inference that the NPTC planning department have contravened the Environmental Protection Act 1990. What is clear from this chain of communication is that members of your council are aware of this and have attempted a cover up of misconduct/malpractice and possible corruption.

HISTORY
We wrote to you previously as the council leader because your council is failing in its purpose to serve us as a group of residents of this area. We requested relevant information to help us understand the planning history of the Enzo site.

You in turn ignored our request for this information and passed our request on to your Head of Planning and Public Protection, Ceri Morris who has treated an information request as a complaint. (despite our refusal to complain). It is clear that he has done so in order to refuse to provide this information and avoid me entering the complaints process in the correct manner.

The Head of Planning and Public Protection has provided us with a copy of his report (authored by Steve Ball) and we can see from his report however that although it is an extensive communication, your council's protocols of providing personal opinions, avoiding relevant questions and refusing further communication are still in evidence which confirm the complete lack of integrity of Mr Morris who has signed the communication.

FAILURE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION
Your council are still refusing to provide any evidence of having followed the correct procedures following the identification of contaminated land in 2008. We reference the information release allegedly written by Ceri Morris:

1. It refers to but does not deal with the evidence we provided you of the deliberate avoidance of the 2008 contaminated land identification question we asked the planning officer Steve Ball.

2. It refers to but does not answer any of the questions we asked you in our email of 28/4/2020.

COUNCIL OF DEATH

The report by Ceri Morris of the planning department provides evidence of a disregard for human life by referencing the carcinogens Arsenic and Benzo[a]pyrene as "low level contamination" I refer to an extract from his email which states:

"I note that the Geo-Technical and Geo-Environmental Report to which you refer, which supported planning application P2008/1462, did find low levels of contamination"

We would assume that being a planning officer as opposed to a toxicologist, Ceri Morris who has signed the letter is not an expert on the carcinogenic properties of Arsenic and Benzo[a]pyrene and their effects on the human body. A scientific paper on the US National Library of Medicine by Zahir Ur Rehman et al states that:

"There is no evidence that Arsenic is essential for human health and its exposure has been linked to severe health complications such as hyperkeratosis, gangrene, hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, melnosis, keratosis, bladder and internal cancers and also its carcinogenic consequences on skin and lungs."

Arsenic causes cancer both internally and externally, what is clear to us is that the complexities of the human body and its interaction with the chemical elements including carcinogens such as Arsenic and Benzo[a]pyrene should be left to the experts in the field of toxicology not the personal opinions of the Neath-Port Talbot Council Planning Department.

It should also be noted that from 2010 onwards and including the present day application the contaminated land identified in the 2008 application has not been referenced by the NPTC planning department in any way. Remediation of the contaminated land cannot be found in any of the conditions and there is no evidence of remediation having taken place before 2010. In 2010, the planning department allowed the Cuddy group to submit a new geo-technical survey without any chemical testing. The contaminated land including the carcinogens Arsenic and Benzo[a]pyrene has clearly been hidden by the planning department for the last 11 years and it would have remained hidden if we hadn't provided evidence of its existence.

What is clear from the information available is that your council has hidden the contaminated land information thereby leaving these grade one carcinogens to be moved around at leisure by the Cuddy Group. Some of this land was moved to less than 20 meters away from my house and I had to personally confront the driver of an earth moving machine to prevent it being moved closer.

What is also clear from the planning history is that the planning department have approved further tipping on the site and considering that classified grade 1 carcinogens had already been tipped there; this provides further evidence of a complete disregard for the lives of the local residents.

To confirm the information we have just provided you with:

1. The geo-technical report conducted in 2008 containing the information about classified grade 1 carcinogens being present at the site was never referenced again. The planning department failed to report the contaminated land which they were bound to do according to your Contaminated Land Strategy and the Environmental Protection Act 1990.

2. In 2010, the planning department changed one of the conditions to allow the Cuddy Group a delay in providing a new geo-technical report which was eventually completed by a different company without the chemical testing. This delay in a new survey allowed the Cuddy Group to continue to tip industrial waste and poison. Allowing a new report without chemical testing is clear evidence of the deliberate attempt by your planning department to cover up the existence of contaminated land thereby endangering the lives of local residents.

You should also be aware that I have additional incriminating information not provided in this communication.

The above actions and the current cover up actions by the members of the planning department of your council would indicate that they are guilty of at least the criminal offence 'Misconduct in Public Office'. I would suggest that you appoint someone outside of your organisation to investigate the activities of this department who seem to place themselves above the law. The planning department of your council have for at least the last 11 years deliberately endangered the lives of the 300-400 residents of this area. If you fail to act on this information you are also guilty of the criminal offence 'Misconduct in Public Office'.

END OF EXTRACTS

That the Glynneath Town Council have failed to investigate further or undetake due diligence to investigate a potential breach of the 1990 Environmental Protection Act is a clear indication that the Glynneath Town Council have clearly failed in their DUTY OF CARE to the residents of East Glynneath

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Dear Council Leader, I now have enough evidence from the chain our correspondence with your council planning department and the actual planning department records to confirm my inference that the NPTC planning department have contravened the Environmental Protection Act 1990. What is clear from this chain of communication is that members of your council are aware of this and have attempted a cover up of misconduct/malpractice and possible corruption. This is your last opportunity to address this situation internally; our next step is to provide the information we have to the police.............. 

HISTORY We wrote to you previously as the council leader because your council is failing in its purpose to serve us as a group of residents of this area. We requested relevant information to help us understand the planning history of the Enzo site. You in turn ignored our request for this information and passed our request on to your Head of Planning and Public Protection, Ceri Morris who has treated an information request as a complaint. (despite our refusal to complain). It is clear that he has done so in order to refuse to provide this information and avoid me entering the complaints process in the correct manner. The Head of Planning and Public Protection has provided us with a copy of his report (authored by Steve Ball) and we can see from his report however that although it is an extensive communication, your council's protocols of providing personal opinions, avoiding relevant questions and refusing further communication are still in evidence which confirm the complete lack of integrity of Mr Morris who has signed the communication. FAILURE TO PROVIDE INFORMATION Your council are still refusing to provide any evidence of having followed the correct procedures following the identification of contaminated land in 2008. We reference the information release allegedly written by Ceri Morris: 1. It refers to but does not deal with the evidence we provided you of the deliberate avoidance of the 2008 contaminated land identification question we asked the planning officer Steve Ball. 2. It refers to but does not answer any of the questions we asked you in our email of 28/4/2020. COUNCIL OF DEATH The report by Ceri Morris of the planning department provides evidence of a disregard for human life by referencing the carcinogens Arsenic and Benzo[a]pyrene as "low level contamination" I refer to an extract from his email which states: "I note that the Geo-Technical and Geo-Environmental Report to which you refer, which supported planning application P2008/1462, did find low levels of contamination" We would assume that being a planning officer as opposed to a toxicologist, Ceri Morris who has signed the letter is not an expert on the carcinogenic properties of Arsenic and Benzo[a]pyrene and their effects on the human body. A scientific paper on the US National Library of Medicine by Zahir Ur Rehman et al states that: "There is no evidence that Arsenic is essential for human health and its exposure has been linked to severe health complications such as hyperkeratosis, gangrene, hypertension, peripheral vascular disease, melnosis, keratosis, bladder and internal cancers and also its carcinogenic consequences on skin and lungs." Arsenic causes cancer both internally and externally, what is clear to us is that the complexities of the human body and its interaction with the chemical elements including carcinogens such as Arsenic and Benzo[a]pyrene should be left to the experts in the field of toxicology not the personal opinions of the Neath-Port Talbot Council Planning Department. It should also be noted that from 2010 onwards and including the present day application the contaminated land identified in the 2008 application has not been referenced by the NPTC planning department in any way. Remediation of the contaminated land cannot be found in any of the conditions and there is no evidence of remediation having taken place before 2010. In 2010, the planning department allowed the Cuddy group to submit a new geo-technical survey without any chemical testing. The contaminated land including the carcinogens Arsenic and Benzo[a]pyrene has clearly been hidden by the planning department for the last 11 years and it would have remained hidden if we hadn't provided evidence of its existence. What is clear from the information available is that your council has hidden the contaminated land information thereby leaving these grade one carcinogens to be moved around at leisure by the Cuddy Group. Some of this land was moved to less than 20 meters away from my house and I had to personally confront the driver of an earth moving machine to prevent it being moved closer. What is also clear from the planning history is that the planning department have approved further tipping on the site and considering that classified grade 1 carcinogens had already been tipped there; this provides further evidence of a complete disregard for the lives of the local residents. To confirm the information we have just provided you with: 1. The geo-technical report conducted in 2008 containing the information about classified grade 1 carcinogens being present at the site was never referenced again. The planning department failed to report the contaminated land which they were bound to do according to your Contaminated Land Strategy and the Environmental Protection Act 1990. 2. In 2010, the planning department changed one of the conditions to allow the Cuddy Group a delay in providing a new geo-technical report which was eventually completed by a different company without the chemical testing. This delay in a new survey allowed the Cuddy Group to continue to tip industrial waste and poison. Allowing a new report without chemical testing is clear evidence of the deliberate attempt by your planning department to cover up the existence of contaminated land thereby endangering the lives of local residents. You should also be aware that I have additional incriminating information not provided in this communication. The above actions and the current cover up actions by the members of the planning department of your council would indicate that they are guilty of at least the criminal offence 'Misconduct in Public Office'. I would suggest that you appoint someone outside of your organisation to investigate the activities of this department who seem to place themselves above the law. The planning department of your council have for at least the last 11 years deliberately endangered the lives of the 300-400 residents of this area. If you fail to act on this information you are also guilty of the criminal offence 'Misconduct in Public Office'. EXTRACT ENDS This is clear evidence of corruption within the NPT Council planning committee.

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