It appears as though Norman Elthorpe, the controversial manager of licensing and trading standards is to "retire" in two weeks time.
He made the announcement at a meeting of taxi trade reps earlier this week. Norman Elthorpe will be most remembered by the taxi trade for leading the council into two expensive court cases.
He first tried to force all taxi owners to paint their cabs Green. This was overruled at Manchester Crown Court by the wise HH Judge Geake, leaving the tax payers of Stockport with a huge legal bill.
Then two years ago, after failing to ensure he had carried out the legal requirements to limit the number of taxis, spending untold thousands of tax payers money on worthless studies. He once again met HH Judge Geake at Manchester Crown Court. As predicted he again lost the case with further resultant unnecessary expense for the hard pressed residents of the town. His "departure" comes at a time when the Council are on the brink of Crown Court action. They are to appear on Wednesday 23rd March 2009 in a disability case brought by a Stockport cabbie.
At last he is "retiring" as to what sort of package he has been "awarded" one can only guess at this stage. It is hope that it will be revealed "in the fulness of time"
For now, let's pray it was nothing close to this chaps cheerio:
A council boss was given a £365,000 payment when he quit a job after a year.
Adam Wilkinson, now chief executive of Derby City Council, received the huge pay out from Kent County Council where he had worked as director of environment and regeneration.
He made the announcement at a meeting of taxi trade reps earlier this week. Norman Elthorpe will be most remembered by the taxi trade for leading the council into two expensive court cases.
He first tried to force all taxi owners to paint their cabs Green. This was overruled at Manchester Crown Court by the wise HH Judge Geake, leaving the tax payers of Stockport with a huge legal bill.
Then two years ago, after failing to ensure he had carried out the legal requirements to limit the number of taxis, spending untold thousands of tax payers money on worthless studies. He once again met HH Judge Geake at Manchester Crown Court. As predicted he again lost the case with further resultant unnecessary expense for the hard pressed residents of the town. His "departure" comes at a time when the Council are on the brink of Crown Court action. They are to appear on Wednesday 23rd March 2009 in a disability case brought by a Stockport cabbie.
At last he is "retiring" as to what sort of package he has been "awarded" one can only guess at this stage. It is hope that it will be revealed "in the fulness of time"
For now, let's pray it was nothing close to this chaps cheerio:
A council boss was given a £365,000 payment when he quit a job after a year.
Adam Wilkinson, now chief executive of Derby City Council, received the huge pay out from Kent County Council where he had worked as director of environment and regeneration.
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