Last Tuesdays Local Area Forum

Okay, a little (well okay, a lot) late due to England footbal teams short lived venture in Portugal and purchasing a new computer. Anyway, here goes:

So we had the local forum and it was the usual mix of sheer banality interspersed with the odd moment of enlightenment. Rather than detailing all that unravelled that night I’ll summarise as best I can:

The local police representative stated that the initiative at Southgate Green is to continue for the foreseeable future and has been a great success to date. In particular, its interesting that so far the feared migration to other local areas has not occurred.

I had a chat with the guy after his speech and he promised to look into the Mayfield garages once again. He was surprised that nefarious activities were continuing as he assumed that it was now resolved since the council last tidied up the area.

The local youths are now apparently getting into Grovelands park by climbing over damaged fencing and riding stolen motorbikes around the park into the wee small hours, Quite how they get the bikes in was not elaborated. The Pony tailed one from the local council said that he was reeeeaaaalllllyyyy sorry but new funding was on the way for the parks which will help to nip this in the bud. Yeah, right.

We then had a long piece from a representative from Highways maintenance. The long and short of it was that our Borough roads are essentially knackered after years of under investment and now need at least circa £20million to be put right, which we aint got, despite the outlandish council rates. So we are in for a period of prioritised road maintenance based on nearness to hospitals, schools, tubes, main thouroughfare etc. This speech naturally degenerated into members of the audience promoting their own particular stretch of the road, which were met with the usual platitudes

Two other subjects were discussed, which I will write in separate entries:

Control Parking Zone
Local Trees

Ciao for now
Anthony Newstead