A
birthday
boy
reflects on
Riverside`s
bossy ways
Riverside`s
bossy ways
It`s
celebration time...this blog is a birthday boy, two years old this week.
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| Irresponsible claim....PATRICK LEONARD |
We
have had our successes and sadly, we have failed in some things. But the fight against Riverside`s
incompetence goes on.
Chief
among our successes was the resignation of the former Carlisle regional
director, Mr Patrick Leonard. He sealed
his fate when he made a fatuous and
irresponsible claim after he stood
for election as Cumbria Police and Crime Commissioner.
The claim was that he hoped after that election that he would combine the police commissioner`s job with
his Riverside job.
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| Only one job up to now...Dean Butterworth |
his job with any other job.
Another
success was reported only very recently.
It is that Riverside have decided to
shed all the work attached to running its 270 Carlise leaseholdings. It
is moving the work
to its head office at Liverpool.
to its head office at Liverpool.
News
of the shift to Liverpool is no surprise
to the Carlisle leaseholders. They have suffered for years from Riverside`s incompetence... rocketing bills that no one understood and numerous failures to deal with outstanding problems and difficulties.
And the fact that Riverside has had to make this shift indicates just how incompetent is its Carlisle operation.
to the Carlisle leaseholders. They have suffered for years from Riverside`s incompetence... rocketing bills that no one understood and numerous failures to deal with outstanding problems and difficulties.
And the fact that Riverside has had to make this shift indicates just how incompetent is its Carlisle operation.
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| Tenants` leader...Jimmy Robb |
Will
the shift to Liverpool make any difference?The only difference seems to be that
Carlisle letters of complaint will have 100 miles further to travel.
There has been success too in ending thei advertisements Riverside has been running every week for two years in the Cumberland News, Carlisle.
The advertisements claimed that Riverside was ”transforming lives and re-vitalising neighbourhoods.”
The advertisements suddenly
stopped appearing this month. Riverside may have pulled the plug on them, Or
the Cumberland News may have pulled the plug.
The advertisements claimed that Riverside was supporting (presumably, financially) the page of the Cumberland News where the advertisements appear, the district news page.
Possibly, the Cumberland News came to the conclusion that it is just not good policy to have the support of Riverside on one page of the newspaper and to have articles criticising Riverside`s shameful record at Longtown on another page.
Whatever the reason: Good riddance to the Riverside page!
The big failure in the fight against Riverside has been over the appalling neglect of the Longtown Riverside tenants .
These unfortunate people are now emerging from their third winter in ice-box homes that they cannot afford to heat because of the dodgy boilers installed by Riverside.
Carlisle Tenants` and Residents` Federation has fought continuously for these tenants, backing Jimmy Robb leader of their pressure group, Longtown Action for Heat.
