Unaccountability in Scotland
Research into some injustices

Linn Park - Closure of Path - Correspondence

The correspondence with the various council officials and councillors [the council] and a group of councerned Chartered Engineers [the Engineers] is given below.

The first point is that the council have neither qualification, learning, or experience whereas the Engineers are competent persons. Note the capital "E". The points of contention are:

  • The "RSK survey" cannot be described as a survey. It was a walk past with a desk study of other reports. The report is deficient because
    • It fails to provide relevant information - such as when is the next rock fall likely [e.g. one in ten years]
    • it fails to project the magnitude of the next event - will it be as before a few small rocks, or larger.
  • Without this information, any remedial works design will be highly suspect.
  • The council failed to conduct a "risk assessment" of the risks which blocking off the path has caused, which are substantial.

The correspondence is in reverse date order [i.e. latest is first]. A review of the corrsependence suggests:

  • It is evident that the elected councillors have no ability to understand the specific problem regarding the closure of the path; they have obviously been terrified into believing the RSK report as gospel - rubbish tho it undoubtedly is.
  • They are utterly incapable of holding the council's Parks Department and its management to account.
  • The Parks Department have no interest in opening the path, having falsely closed it in the first instance in a knee jerk reaction. It was a further six months before the RSK [coverup] report emerged. See https://tdocplus.co.uk/linnpark/information-on-the-park/path-closure/249-about-rsk-geosciences