9 March (Part 2) - Bedlam, Building and Bins
A short break from budgets and and
Chocolate Teapot Cabinet Members
beginning with something that is well outside my area of expertise. Firstly, I have attended
more rugby matches this year than I have football games in my entire life and
secondly I do not follow planning matters except in rare circumstances. I leave
that to the indefatigable Murky Depths.
However I have been asked to bring a Welling Unites F.C. Planning Application to
your attention. Since all I know is what arrived in a recent email and what is
on the Council’s website I cannot do much more than reproduce it here.
Welling United Football Club
Hi, I wonder if you’d help get this seen. It’s about a planning application to
build an 8 storey 104 mostly 2 and 3 and a few 1 bed flats on the Park View Road
side of the football pitch with only 8 disabled bay parking provision and two
‘car share’ on road spaces in total. It’s going to be bedlam.
The council have
also made John Newton Court permit only so those residents are using the roads too.
Welling football club are only leaseholders so can’t get build permission only planning. This
is protected Green Belt/Metropolitan open land. The document attached is a resident objection plus alternative site proposals hopefully making
it void to use under GB/MOL criteria. But without help planners will push it through.
The message came with a Word document which I struggled to get into a readable format
(so I could not correct a few space omissions) but I did manage to convert it to
a twelve page illustrated PDF.
I imagine this is very worrying to residents living close to the
football ground and anyone else unhappy with Bexley Council’s intention to cover us in concrete.
Personally I am being blighted by ugly tower blocks.
All I know about planning approvals is that they are governed by the Mayor’s
London Plan who as Chairman of C40 Cities is on a mission to wreck London which
definitely includes restricting car parking. It is because of Khan that Bexleyheath is
blighted by the overbearing Eastside Quarter.
The latest abomination is numbered 23/03296/FULM. There are currently
212 public comments on the Council’s website. Obviously it is not a popular
idea and you may wish to increase the tally.
Business Expansion
How did I miss this? Your favourite property developer set up four new companies
last year. Helping Hands Housing Trust, Sukhchain Housing, RK Construct and Teer Court Commercial.
One might almost believe that he has forged a relationship with Bexley Council
to solve their housing problems.
I’m a fly tipper
Yesterday morning
I took a toilet roll spool, some empty envelopes and a
six litre milk container to the bins and chucked the paper into the unlocked left hand
bin but before I got to the right hand bin a CountryStyle operative who had come
to empty it opened the lid and invited me to toss the milk bottle inside
which I did while noting it was full of cardboard and silently cursing my
neighbours.
Then the penny dropped. The bins which have been arranged,
left to right, paper,
plastic, glass were now plastic, glass, paper. So my paper had gone into the
plastics bin and the CountryStyle man raised no objection to me putting plastic in
with the paper.
I apologised for so doing but there was no sign that he cared. Why can’t they leave well alone?
Rearranged bins.