A council leader’s comments about a controversial garden village scheme being ‘rammed down’ the throat of opponents attracted dozens of formal complaints, it has been revealed. However, there will be no standards investigation looking at the conduct of Tameside leader Brenda Warrington, the town hall says.
In response to a Freedom of Information request from the Local Democracy Reporting Service , Tameside council stated that there had been 29 written complaints following the outburst at budget full council in February. Tameside’s legal chief Sandra Stewart had previously said councillor Warrington did not breach the council’s code of conduct in the language used at the meeting.
Coun Warrington had hit back at the ‘Brenda the Bulldozer’ nickname given to her by the Tory opposition over the Godley Green project to build 2,150 homes on green belt land in Hyde.
