Whatever happens – the costs of this pointless and unnecessary DPC v DRCCT dispute will be paid for using public money. By majority vote – Datchet Parish Council has agreed to pay for and then recover their recent £20k costs from the local charity – the DRCCT.
Cllr Buckley (Chair of Datchet Parish Council) and/or the Clerk – have now broken into Datchet Hall and changed the Hall lock twice – and installed 24 hour security (at a cost of £9,500) to keep two Trustees out. Recent DPC costs total £20k.
There is no ‘legal dispute’. The Founding Deed is precise in terms of ‘politics’ and ‘poverty’. LGA 1972(s139)3 is absolutely clear. This legislation is in place to prevent conflict of interest and the Parish Council continuously gaining self-benefit from the use of local charity assets.
MY DUTY as a long serving Datchet Parish Councillor is to inform residents about how Datchet public money is being spent by Cllrs Buckley, Young and the Clerk (with the support of a group of mainly co-opted Councillors) on gaining control of the valuable DRCCT assets that belong to the village – not to Datchet Parish Council. Neither Councillor Buckley nor Young have ever been through a Datchet Parish Council election process (the last contested election was in 2015) and Cllr Buckley no longer lives in Datchet.