2 August - It’s party time in Erith
As you may have noticed if you took
the link to Hugh Neal’s blog yesterday, he too has carefully skirted around
the discovery of a cannabis farm in Pier Road, Erith. Hugh referred to
excessive electricity consumption being a factor in its discovery but my
understanding is that there were cables running across roofs which were reported
to Bexley Council as long ago as last January and that safety checks were requested.
Bexley Council has more recently been asked what checks it carried out, and when, because almost
unbelievably it has been using the same premises for its own
children’s holiday activities since 25 July, the same day that the police announced the raid.
Bearing in mind how long a Council would take to plan such an event, all the indications
must be that Bexley Council ignored warnings of a possible fire
hazard and went ahead and invited children to go to the same address, albeit in a different part of the building.
Erith residents tell me that advertisements have appeared in the town promoting
an event next Saturday at the same address.
I am no expert at checking licencing applications but I failed to find one.
Is this further evidence of Bexley Council turning a blind eye to illegal activities by a particular group of people?
The last time BiB looked into an illegal entertainment event it discovered that it was
organised by a Councillor and the Mayor had
entered the engagement in her official diary.
Labour Councillors kicked up a stink about the Conservatives running a pub event
expressly forbidden in the pub’s licence but got nowhere with it.
It’s one rule for them etc., as always.