Shelley Dawson
From:
Information Request
Sent:
Monday, 13 August 2018 10:37 AM
To:
[FYI request #8022 email]
Subject:
Request for Official Information - Response
Dear Annie
REQUEST FOR OFFICIAL INFORMATION
Thank you for your request for official information received 27 July 2018. You requested the following information:
• “
Can you tell me please does Blair Devlin have a personal association with the planner who submitted the
fraudulent application?”
Council does not hold information about Blair Devlin’s personal relationship to your neighbour’s planner. We are
unable to release information that we do not hold.
Please be advised that we consider your correspondence to us in regards to this matter, more specifically the conduct
of your neighbour and the Council allowing a consent holder to breach their consent, to be potentially defamatory.
We neither accept nor condone these statements but caution you to refrain from such references in any future
correspondence with Council.
We trust this response satisfactorily answers your request
Kind regards
Shelley Dawson
Shelley Dawson | Senior Advisor, Governance | Chief Executive’s Office
Queenstown Lakes District Council
DD: +64 3 441 0480 | P: +64 3 441 0499
E: [email address]
Please note that I work from 9am – 3pm
Dear Tony Avery,
After I accused Blair Devlin of nepotism in an official complaint to Council all connections on social media between
him, my neighbour and the planner were hidden or disabled.
Why would a Council employee divulge information contained in a confidential complaint if he wasn’t concerned
about public knowledge of his personal associations.
There is 800m3 of fill under the buildings alone on my neighbour’s section. Council have a fill certification report
showing testing on the engineered fill was done to 1.6m. The CFMA planner who submitted the resource consent
application stipulated earthworks were not applicable.
Can you tell me please does Blair Devlin have a personal association with the planner who submitted the fraudulent
application.
Yours sincerely,
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Annie Weston
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