I don’t know how we all missed this one! It now transpires that at exactly the same time bent Labour Sandwell Council were doing the corrupt deal to sell Lion Farm Fields (a colossal 19 ha green space) to Jeremy Knight Adams (a major Tory donor) they were also flogging him the old Council offices at Stone Cross!
The bent Lion Farm Deal - the early story
2004 - the son of former labour Councillor Mahboob Hussain - Azeem Hafeez, an employee of SMBC eventually working directly in the “regeneration” Department (also responsible for Planning) under Nick Bubalo - bought The Rickshaw Restaurant in Dudley adjacent to Mahboob’s taxi firm for £85,000. At some point Jeremy Knight Adams decided he wanted to redevelop the whole site which brought him into contact with Cllr Hussain. On a date unknown, Mahboob Hussain agreed to “introduce” Knight Adams to corrupt Sandwell Council. Needless to say this was not declared or recorded in any way.
2012 - Knight Adams paid Hussain’s son £470,000 for the Rickshaw Restaurant - a massive profit for the humble Council employee (who left and now runs most of Sandwell’s SEND transport via a multi-million pound Labour contract).
2012 - At around this time a senior Councillor told me - on condition of anonymity - that Cllr Hussain walked him around Lion Farm Fields and tried to persuade him that it would be a good thing to destroy the Fields and build a shopping centre there.
15th August 2012 - Bent Labour started a series of secret meetings with Knight Adams. This may not have been the first of those meetings but this one was attended by Darren Cooper (the now-dead bully, wife-beater, and Labour “leader”), Mahboob Hussain, now disgraced former Chief Executive Jan Britton, and disgraced Head of the Regeneration Department, Nick Bubalo. This quartet deliberately chose not to keep any records of these secret meetings (of which there were at least two).
19th December, 2012 - At a meeting of the Land Disposal meeting on this date a secret agenda item under the deliberately misleading title “Junction 2 Development” the Committee decided to grant Jeremy Knight Adams an exclusive option to purchase the entire site. The only two Councillors who bothered to attend the meeting were Hussain and the deeply corrupt liar (Skidders passim ad nauseum and see Legal Notice below) Cllr Simon Hackett (who, incredibly, is back in the bent Council’s Cabinet). Cllr Hussain failed to declare any interest in this matter nor his connections with Knight Adams. Had he done so the Committee would not have been quorate and Hackett could not have approved the Option agreement on his own. As it was, there was a detailed agenda of 8 items which these two got through in just 7 minutes - yes SEVEN minutes. One of the other agenda items was an approval of the sale of the former Coroner’s office at Crocketts Lane, Smethwick - which, happily, was later bought at a very reasonable price by Cllr Hussain’s son, the aforesaid Azeem Hafeez!
13th January, 2013 - The bent Labour Sandwell including disgraced former Leader Steve “Squealing” Eling, the corrupt Hackett again, and Paul Moore (who did so much to try and force this bent effort through later on) approved the corrupt deal. These jokers got though a very heavy agenda in just 2 minutes - YES TWO MINUTES. When the minutes of both of these meetings were published they were very heavily redacted so that the public had no idea that the Option related to Lion Farm Fields. This, of course, was absolutely deliberate by Labour.
21st May, 2013 - without putting this huge green space up for public sale bent Labour gave Knight Adams an exclusive option to buy Lion Farm Fields and, astonishingly, he STILL has that option 10 years later thanks to yet more Labour corruption detailed elsewhere in The Skidder. The current Leader [sic] Kerrie “Dim Kez” Carmichael has been heavily involved in the continuing plan to destroy the Fields and continues to try to force the bent deal through. She has now managed to get her own mother selected as the Labour candidate in Langley at the May elections to help f*ck the locals over.
Here's a picture of "Shite" Adams (holding the plan) with his pal, West Midlands Mayor, Andy Street:
Before the “Breaking News” I will just mention two things. All of the above was reported to corrupt West Midlands Police at the time of the Regional Fraud Team investigation but the Bent Blues failed to investigate. WMP wrote this to me on 9th July, 2018:
“I can state in 2015 West Midlands Police were aware of Cllr Mahboob Hussain’s association to the developer for the Lion Farm Estate [sic] but this matter fell outside the remit of the Regional Fraud team investigation.”
WTF????? What does this even mean. And I have been asking WMP FOR years which Officer(s) agreed the “remit” and why? There has been a cover-up here, pure and simple.
Interestingly, The Wragge Report raised questions about the legality of the bent Option and even queries whether there had been contravention of the Bribery Act. Bizarrely, at Mahboob Hussain’s High Court legal action bent Sandwell itself was keen to inform the Judge that Wragge’s had exceeded their remit (yes, that word again) in even referring to this matter. Again WTF? This was raised in the Cox Review which Dim Kez and Grant Thornton (supposedly bent Sandwell’s “independent auditors”) have been fighting to keep secret from you! Once again - a monumental cover-up going on here. Although Eling, Britton and others were desperate to nail Hussain they didn’t want THIS affair discussed at all.
Many moons ago the mainstream media were - as now - on their knees rimming Sandwell Labour at every opportunity, and it was down to The Skidder team and this blog to EXCLUSIVELY Report on deals involving the Hussain family, including Azeem Hafeez. While the local TV and media did f all the Skidder broke the Boggate, Lodge Street and Crocketts Lane scandals. One interesting feature of the Hussain family property dealings at this time was that they invariably used an agent in their planning matters, one Anthony Hope. Now read on …
BREAKING NEWS - FORMER SMBC OFFICES, STONE CROSS
When bent Labour set up a new computer system they deleted many of the old records from online viewing. This includes the minutes of the Land Disposal Committee before 2015. (I wrote to Kim Bromley Derry the errant former Interim Chief Exec and currently the Lead Government Commissioner at bent Sandwell and thought that the old records were to be restored, but that has not happened.)
Until we can see the actual minutes (and I have written to the Commissioners about this today) I cannot be totally sure but believe the Committee declared the site of their own neighbourhood office at Clifford Lane, Stone Cross in the summer of 2012. This would have been at exactly the same time Hussain was “introducing Knight Adams” to SMBC and the secret Lion Farm meetings were being organised. Subject to seeing the minutes it is likely that Cllr Hussain was on the Committee, along with corrupt liar Hackett, Derbyshire-resident Eling (who institutionalised corruption at bent Sandwell and was forced out in disgrace), and Derek Rowley, who this blog disclosed was involved in the sale of Council property via one of his mate’s on Facebook. [Stop press - this matter was definitely before the Land Disposal Committee on 20th June, 2012 when Eling, Hackett, Hussain and Rowley were in attendance. Many thanks to X for the info.]
What I can tell you from official Land Registry records is that just 3 days after Eling, Hackett, Moore and others agreed the bent Lion Farm Option to Knight Adams they sold him (via one of his Companies) the former Council Offices at Stone Cross for a modest £170,000 (£300k less than he paid for the derelict Rickshaw Restaurant). The Land Registry title MM15217 shows that on 16th January, 2013 SMBC sold the land to Alpha (Stonecross) Limited (owned by Mr and Mrs Knight Adams).
Planning documents show that Knight Adams (and another) applied for planning permission for 13 houses on the site in 2018 which was granted subject to conditions. He received “pre-application advice from SMBC staff” - indeed the same person involved in the Sahotaville affair.
The agent for that planning application was a Birmingham architect.
In 2021 Knight Adams applied - under the name Bowerbird Homes - to discharge the conditions from the 2018 planning consent. Now he has a new agent - none other that our old friend Anthony Hope! Yet another one of those amazing Sandwell coincidences!
I am writing to the Commissioners and to West Midlands Police again, but there must be an urgent investigation into all this. At the precise time Labour were (secretly) pulling the bent deal on Lion Farm they were flogging the same bloke the old Council offices. In particular, the sale of the Stone Cross site was left to the later disgraced Nick Bubalo - at a time when he was personally in other secret, unminuted meetings, with Knight Adams. The legal work was then to be handled by also disgraced Solicitor Neeraj Sharma. You can read the Wragge Report to see what this pair were up to …
And Finally - an urgent reminder
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