John Matthews Chair of Crest Nicholson “Please Help Us” – A Family Request

Shit i just bought shares in them

This tale is pretty disgusting, a clear case of cynical manipulation of a family to maximise corporate profit. It's been going on for years and it's about time someone took up their cause.

Now you're a shareholder you stand to benefit from the company's profits. But if you take the benefits you should take the responsibilities that go with them, and redressing the situation by restoring these people's boat and finding them acceptable moorings would go some way towards it. Write to the board as a shareholder and ask them why they don't feel any responsibility towards these people.

Clearly you weren't a shareholder when this first happened, but then neither was Dow Chemicals owner of a chemical plant in Bhopal when it blew up, yet few people would defend their decision not to clean up the mess.

Consider it done.

 http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/q/ta?s=CRST.L

I have been following this saga for many years & I am still astonished that Crest Nicholson do not accept the responsibility they so clearly should take. This family chose an alternative lifestyle that perhaps did not 'fit' into the Crest Nicholson Marina's profile, so for that they were railroaded out of the Marina & their home of many years.

Due to this shameful behaviour I have berthed my motor boat at Cardiff Bay Yacht Club instead of the more convenient Penarth Marina & if I ever wanted shares in a company I would not consider Crest Nicholson.

I believe that they owe the family proper help in giving them accommodation to suit their choice & family needs, not necessarily provide them with a houseboat, but at least a home they can call their own.

My understanding is that Crest Nicholson own & is planning to build property on the 'billybanks' site, why cant they rehouse them in a property there? giving them full ownership as a way of admitting moral responsibility & compensating the family of all the hurt that Creest Nicholson have caused.

If this or something on similar lines was done I would then reconsider investing in Crest Nicholson Plc

Wishing the family all the very best

Jo
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I read the letter, but I can't quite determine what the family's grievance is, except that I guess they have been evicted from their houseboat, which I guess was moored at Penarth?

Surely this comes down to a simple issue of property rights. If the family owned the mooring and did not wish to leave, I do not see how Crest Nicholson could have forced them out. If they did not own the mooring, then I imagine they leased it? Leases can be determined lawfully, so how have CN acted improperly?

Please explain ??

As the Shalom Family campaign website is still going, it seems not too late to reply to your thread.

First and foremost, I suggest that if you are serious and moral minded, stop 'guessing' and read more!

The 'complaint' is the overall injustice of it all.

I think the above Family letter explains enough to direct any right-thinking individual, to put together the 'complaint' more in its entirety. It appears that a decent, long-standing Family Home was destroyed for no, good, moral reason, and an ordinary Family was trampled-on in the process! The fact is that Corporate Fascism hurts no less, even if it is undertaken by so-called, 'respectable' English Gentlemen!

The letter states:-

"John Callcutt CBE acted immorally whilst leading Crest Nicholson Plc. We also believe that in doing so, he may have deliberately misled you, your fellow directors and the Crest Nicholson organisation."

The 'complaint', as you so mildly put it, is about people (and Crest Nicholson Plc) who have done wrong, even if they act, or appear to be acting, within the UK Law, as it presently stands. The 'complaint' highlights how they got away with it, and in particular, how one man, John Callcutt CBE, still appears to have been rewarded by the establishment.. Surely, in this day and age, a CBE should be granted only to those with an impeccable history? Screwing a Family with kids is hardly a spotless C.V.!

One sure thing in life is that shi* happens in high places, and it appears to be the case here that there is nothing that anyone can do about it. But in the 'complaint', we should never forget that shi* floats to the top! Perhaps not quite as well as the Shalom Family houseboat, ever will again, but why, with this saga trundling on, is John Callcutt CBE, heading up the 'Callcutt Review' of UK Housebuilding Delivery at  http://www.callcuttreview.co.uk/default.jsp ?

If, as the Family suggest, that John Callcutt CBE likes pork pies, and he deliberately misrepresented the entire situation to the Crest Nicholson Board of Directors and, to avoid getting himself 'spanked', then the Board of Directors at Crest Nicholson, could forgive themselves, for acting so heavy-handed against this Family and their Home. Maybe, just maybe, they could even put it right for them. What about UK Government policy in the employment of Corporate bullies?

To answer your final remark, "how have CN acted improperly?", well, why not reverse it? Crest Nicholson could have acted properly by being entirely truthful. It was their mistake to have invited the Family and their home, with children, into the Penarth Marina in Wales. John Callcutt admitted so. Are we now supposed to believe that Crest Nicholson, Family and Community are words that should not be seen together?

It was Crest Nicholson and John Callcutt negligence that caused the Family home to become grounded on the marina floor in a nightime accident.

Crest could have granted the family permission to fix the onsuing leak, BEFORE insisting that the Family leave. John Callcutt CBE and Crest Nicholson clearly knew that in preventing the Family from fixing their home, (which would have ensured the Family's ability to move) time would overtake the situation and present a 'legitimate legal argument' for the houseboat removal - By refusing to grant permissions, Crest Nicholson forced the situation of no insurance, 'breach of contract', no moorings fees being paid, and trespass. That is another 'complaint'.

Crest could have been honourable in admitting their total mistakes and properly compensated the Family instead of orchestrating the situation to their own advantage, pooring scorn and ridicule on the Family in the process. As the family website shows, this is about Corporate beauty in cahoots with the Vale of Glamorgan Council, as 'together' in 'partnership' ,they develop the Crest Nicholson Penarth Heights project. at  http://www.valeofglamorgan.gov.uk/living/planning/planning_applications/penarth_heights.aspx

The 'complaint' is that Crest Nicholson, along with others, have acted dishonourably. Case dismissed! So far, the whole bloody lot of them are guilty.

Like I said, stop guessing, read more, think and ask genuine questions!