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PC-77079: ⟡ IN RE POLLY CHROMATIC (RBKC) [2024] SWANK 77079 ⟡

The Complaint That Echoed in a Borough That Doesn’t Reply.

Filed: 19 February 2024
Reference: SWANK / RBKC Housing Department / PC-77079
Download PDF: 2024-02-19_Core_PC-77079_RBKC_HousingComplaint_NoResponse_AndrewKtenas.pdf
Summary: Email chain between Polly Chromatic and Kevin Thompson (RBKC Environmental Health) regarding Housing Complaint No. 12060761 — an elegant record of administrative inertia and selective hearing loss.

I. What Happened

• On 14 February 2024, Polly Chromatic lodged a formal housing complaint (Ref. 12060761) with RBKC regarding ongoing property disrepair, environmental nuisance, and harassment linked to prior safeguarding interference.
• Mr Kevin Thompson confirmed receipt, delegating the matter to Principal Officer Andrew Ktenas for a site visit at 37e Elgin Crescent.
• By 19 February, no such visit had been arranged. Ms Chromatic’s follow-up email reads with forensic restraint:

“Just wanted to let you know that I haven’t heard from Andrew yet.”
• The message was copied to the Housing Ombudsman, Environment Agency, NHS Trusts, and RBKC Complaints Officers — a CC-list long enough to qualify as a witness statement.
• The Borough, ever consistent, responded with silence — proving once again that non-communication is the highest form of local governance.

II. What the Document Establishes

• Evidence of failure to act within statutory response timelines under the RBKC Complaints Procedure.
• Proof of habitual non-correspondence by named officers, consistent with prior Equality-Act breaches.
• Demonstration of procedural gaslighting by omission — the art of ignoring someone until their persistence becomes an inconvenience.
• Institutional habit of misplacing empathy between departments.
• Cross-link to prior cases of Elgin Crescent environmental neglect (PC-1816 → PC-1817).

III. Why SWANK Logged It

• Because every silence is a statement — and RBKC writes theirs in unread inboxes.
• Because this single-line email is an essay in dignity under duress.
• Because bureaucratic delay, when archived properly, becomes a style of literature.
• Because the Borough’s most consistent public service remains auto-reply.

IV. Applicable Standards & Violations

• Local Government Act 1974 s. 26(1) — maladministration through failure to act.
• Housing Ombudsman Scheme Rule 25(a) — unreasonable delay in complaint resolution.
• Equality Act 2010 s. 20 — failure to provide reasonable communication adjustments.
• ECHR Art. 8 — right to respect for home and correspondence.

V. SWANK’s Position

This is not “an administrative backlog.”
This is municipal hibernation with a letterhead.

• We do not accept “awaiting contact” as a defence.
• We reject institutional silence as a communication style.
• We file every unanswered email as an affidavit of indifference.

⟡ Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
Every sentence jurisdictional, every absence evidentiary.
Because when a council stops replying, the archive becomes its conscience.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with deliberate punctuation, preserved for litigation and education.
Because evidence deserves elegance — and retaliation deserves an archive.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Unlicensed reproduction will be cited as panic, not authorship.

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PC-1816: ⟡ IN RE POLLY CHROMATIC (W11) [2024] SWANK 1816 ⟡

The Sewer Affair — When Public Utilities Mistook a Basement for a Backstage.

Filed: 14 February 2024
Reference: SWANK / Thames Water / PC-1816
Download PDF: 2024-02-14_Core_PC-1816_Email_ThamesWaterEmployees_ElginCrescentEvidence.pdf
Summary: Email from Polly Chromatic to multiple oversight bodies enclosing photographic proof of Thames Water operatives excavating directly outside 37 Elgin Crescent (W11 2JD) without notice or coordination, thereby providing both evidence of negligence and the best metaphor yet for local governance.

I. What Happened

• At 12:23 p.m. on 14 February 2024, Polly Chromatic wrote to Kevin Thompson (RBKC Environmental Health), attaching doorbell-camera footage of Thames Water employees performing an impromptu archaeological dig in the building’s sewer trench.
• The excavation was executed directly beneath the family’s doorway, absent warning, permit signage, or a working definition of “disturbance.”
• The correspondence was BCC’d to every regulatory body worth its acronym — RBKC Housing Monitoring, the NHS Trust Complaints Team, the Housing Ombudsman, and the Environment Agency — an audience befitting the spectacle.
• In style and substance, the email was polite, evidential, and fatal to any pretence of competence within municipal plumbing.

II. What the Document Establishes

• Evidence of unannounced public-works activity causing nuisance and safety risk.
• Proof of multi-agency notification and administrative inaction thereafter.
• Continuity in RBKC’s pattern of ignoring hazard until photographed.
• Material support for Environmental Health and Equality Act claims linked to housing and respiratory harm.
• A case study in how local authorities convert residents into documentarians.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

• Because few things capture contemporary Britain like contractors digging metaphorical and literal holes at once.
• Because infrastructure is policy made visible — and here it was visible on CCTV.
• Because this is what “joined-up government” looks like when the only thing joined is the sewer.

IV. Applicable Standards & Violations

• Public Health Act 1936 ss. 79–82 — statutory nuisance by sewer works.
• Environmental Protection Act 1990 s. 33 — duty of care in waste and works.
• Equality Act 2010 ss. 20–27 — failure to accommodate disability through environmental management.
• ECHR Art. 8 — right to peaceful enjoyment of home.

V. SWANK’s Position

This is not “routine maintenance.”
This is municipal burlesque — performed in hi-vis.

• We do not accept excavation as a form of community engagement.
• We reject the aesthetic of emergency as infrastructure.
• We archive every instance in which a spade became policy.

⟡ Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
Every comma jurisdictional, every pothole political.
Because when the authorities dig too close to home, we keep the footage.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Unlicensed reproduction will be cited as panic, not authorship.

PC-77477: ⟡ IN RE POLLY CHROMATIC (TCI) [2020] SWANK 77 ⟡

The Regulation They Broke While Quoting It.

Filed: 15 September 2020
Reference: SWANK / TCI Governor’s Office / PC-77477
Download PDF: 2020-09-15_Core_PC-77477_TurksAndCaicos_EmergencyPowers_CovidUnlawfulEntryRegulation.pdf
Summary: Official Government Gazette publication of the Emergency Powers (COVID-19) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (No. 18 of 2020) — the law solemnly ignored by the very officers charged with enforcing it.

I. What Happened

• On 15 September 2020, the Turks & Caicos Governor issued Regulation 18 of 2020, granting himself sweeping powers to control human proximity in the name of “public health.”
• The statute, a masterclass in colonial grammar, criminalised unlawful entry, mandated six-foot distancing, and sanctioned maskless trespass with penalties so precise they could be measured in inches.
• Weeks later, officials from the Department of Social Development — citing this very regulation — entered Polly Chromatic’s home unmasked, uninvited, and undisturbed by their own legislation.
• The Government Gazette therefore became Exhibit A in the jurisprudence of hypocrisy: law as ornament, compliance as a photo op.

II. What the Document Establishes

• The primary legal instrument governing COVID-19 conduct in the TCI.
• A written standard of behaviour breached first by its authors.
• Evidence that public health law was treated as ceremonial rather than functional.
• The statutory spine underpinning later complaints of unlawful entry and disability-risk exposure.
• Proof that “emergency powers” translate as “rules for others.”

III. Why SWANK Logged It

• Because every good case needs its scripture — and this was the scripture they forgot to read.
• Because jurisdiction requires a text, and this is the text they proved optional.
• Because evidence of governance is never as telling as evidence of its disobedience.
• Because pandemic law was less about distance than about deference.

IV. Applicable Standards & Violations

• Emergency Powers (COVID-19) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (No. 18 of 2020) — breached Regulations 7 and 9 (governmental entry restrictions and mask mandates).
• Public and Environmental Health Ordinance (2009 Revised) — failure to protect public safety in official capacity.
• UN CRPD Art. 11 — protection in emergencies for persons with disabilities.
• ECHR Art. 8 — interference with private life without lawful basis.

V. SWANK’s Position

This is not “public health.”
This is performative containment with colonial undertones.

• We do not accept that regulation exists only for citizens.
• We reject the theatre of authority in latex-free gloves.
• We archive every statute that looked majestic in print and miserable in practice.

⟡ Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
Every section jurisdictional. Every preamble propaganda.
Because when law forgets to apply to lawmakers, it becomes literature.

PC-4080: A small island’s grand experiment in procedural hysteria.

⟡ Stanbrooks Law – Re: Harassment (Turks & Caicos Homeschool Dispute)⟡

Filed: 6 August 2020
Reference: SWANK/StanbrooksLaw/PC-4080
Download PDF: 2020-08-06_Core_PC-4080_StanbrooksLaw_TurksAndCaicos_HomeschoolHarassmentComplaint.pdf
Summary: Rejection email from a Providenciales law firm declining to assist a parent facing state harassment — emblematic of the regional legal culture’s studied indifference to rights, procedure, and oxygen.

I. What Happened

• On 5 August 2020, Polly Chromatic, a U.S.–U.K. citizen residing in Grand Turk, wrote to Stanbrooks Lawdetailing three years of harassment by the Department of Social Development for homeschooling her children — a practice repeatedly approved by the Department of Education.
• Her account describes officials banging on her door “as though a murder was in progress,” forcing medical examinations, dismantling her fence, and re-entering her property under emergency COVID-19 powers.
• On 6 August 2020, attorney Sophie Stanbrook replied, declining representation on the ground that the firm “only does non-contentious legal work” — the Caribbean’s most delicate euphemism for we’d rather not.
• The recommendation to “perhaps try another lawyer” is notable for its civility, economy, and absolute moral vacancy.

II. What the Document Establishes

• Evidence of widespread institutional apathy: human rights as boutique service, unavailable on smaller islands.
• Proof that the complainant sought lawful recourse and was rebuffed at the threshold of formality.
• Illustration of a legal culture trained in avoidance — a masterclass in polished disinterest.
• Corroboration of ongoing homeschool harassment, administrative instability, and medical endangerment.
• The moment the judiciary’s colonial inheritance revealed itself not as justice but as etiquette.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

• To capture the texture of juridical indifference — politeness as denial, charm as shield.
• To evidence the regional pattern where procedure becomes the weapon of choice and inaction its outcome.
• Because every great case study in institutional abuse begins with a lawyer who found it “too contentious.”
• To document the precise point at which access to justice became a lifestyle subscription.

IV. Applicable Standards & Violations

• UN Basic Principles on the Role of Lawyers (1990) §12–16 — Duty to ensure effective access to legal services.
• UN CRPD Articles 7 & 13 — Access to justice for persons with disabilities and their families.
• ECHR Article 6 — Right to a fair hearing.
• ECHR Article 8 — Respect for private and family life.
• Equality Act 2010 s.26 — Harassment related to disability (cross-jurisdictional relevance).

V. SWANK’s Position

This is not “non-contentious.”
This is non-conscience.

• We do not accept the architecture of avoidance that passes for legal professionalism.
• We reject the doctrine of “polite disengagement” as an ethical category.
• We will continue to document every curt declination that decorates injustice with stationery.

⟡ This Entry Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
Every comma jurisdictional. Every refusal instructional.
Because civility without courage is not professionalism — it is performance art for the privileged.

Recently Tried in the Court of Public Opinion

PC-77079: ⟡ IN RE POLLY CHROMATIC (RBKC) [2024] SWANK 77079 ⟡

The Complaint That Echoed in a Borough That Doesn’t Reply.

I. What Happened

II. What the Document Establishes

III. Why SWANK Logged It

IV. Applicable Standards & Violations

V. SWANK’s Position

PC-1816: ⟡ IN RE POLLY CHROMATIC (W11) [2024] SWANK 1816 ⟡

The Sewer Affair — When Public Utilities Mistook a Basement for a Backstage.

I. What Happened

II. What the Document Establishes

III. Why SWANK Logged It

IV. Applicable Standards & Violations

V. SWANK’s Position

PC-77477: ⟡ IN RE POLLY CHROMATIC (TCI) [2020] SWANK 77 ⟡

The Regulation They Broke While Quoting It.

I. What Happened

II. What the Document Establishes

III. Why SWANK Logged It

IV. Applicable Standards & Violations

V. SWANK’s Position

PC-4080: A small island’s grand experiment in procedural hysteria.

⟡ Stanbrooks Law – Re: Harassment (Turks & Caicos Homeschool Dispute)⟡

I. What Happened

II. What the Document Establishes

III. Why SWANK Logged It

IV. Applicable Standards & Violations

V. SWANK’s Position