Mr Curran appears to have difficulty listening and what comes out of his mouth seems to conflict with what he actually does.Plenty of soundbites in the press on how 'big' he is on dealing with rogue landlords. He runs scared when it comes to dealing with corporate landlords in particular A2Dominion, who appear to have an awful lot of Labour councillors and council officers in their pockets in West London boroughs. Enough for several MPs across parties to start asking questions.But it remains that A2D are a very questionable and shady organisation, little better than Hounslow Homes with very poor treatment of tenants and many below standard properties in their stock.Since deregistering as a charity, directors have had massive salary hikes, standards of service have fallen and service charges hiked up way beyond inflation.So in the face of this, Cllr Curran and co have green lighted favourable land acquisitions and planning preferences to this organisation. Over in Ealing it is equally bad with a very dubvious and hitherto unexplained preferable deal to the leader of the Labour council who has both a £1m five bed house and a 3 bed A2D property - all aided by his Environment cabinet colleague who happens to also be an employee of A2D."All above board" cry the party faithful. Except this 'arrangement' is totally verboten to ordinary mortals. Now what bloc was it that only gave preferences to party members? Now if Mr Curran was as big as he likes to make out, he would take any action at LBHs disposal against A2D (and there are several options ) until they fall in line with 'his' and LBHs stated expectations of good landlords.But it's a lot easier to build on a park than be tough with the moneymen.
Raymond Havelock ● 3700d