4 December - Massive investment in Bexley’s roads
At
a time when the road disruption in Bexley has become absolutely horrendous and
due to get worse in the New Year, (Station Road, Sidcup to be closed for a whole
year) it is perhaps not too trivial to query what the Conservatives meant by
their 2022 Manifesto
promise to “invest in services and adopt new and innovative modes of working on
road repairs”. See insert for the unedited version.
Have they bought one of JCB’s innovative
pot hole detecting and instant
repairing machines?
Unfortunately not; the new investment in technology was in dash cams
and a couple of mobile phones.
The bill hasn’t quite reached three thousand pounds since 2022. Probably less than the cost
of following up mischievous FixMyStreet reports from an
under-occupied MP.
With thanks to @tonyofsidcup and his relentless FOIs. No wonder Bexley Council wanted him
to be declared vexatious.
3 December - Every day sees a new traffic calamity in Bexley, South East London’s centre for road idiocy
Bexleyְ’s
cretinous Head of Highways has authorised Thames Water to close Brampton Road at
a point just south of the King Harold’s Way/Okehampton Crescent roundabout.
It is in exactly the same place that Thames Water
caused chaos for a week in April last year. Obviously yet another case of
Thames Water doing a bad repair job in the first place.
Bexley Council must have known that Greenwich Council had closed the road north
of that junction and it wasn’t due to reopen until next Friday. Everyone who
drives around the borough must know that Bexley Council is run by lunatics with no shame. Most
of all I pity the bus drivers who have had to learn yet another diversionary route. (†)
Fortunately Greenwich finished
resurfacing their section of the road a
couple of days early. I was optimistic that I might just once have a diversion
free journey to Bromley on Friday - but I had forgotten that Sidcup High Street has been dug up too.
On Monday I considered a big diversion via Bexley Village
to avoid the 25 minute hold up that occurs around Cleeve Park School, that well
known academy for legless children. Maybe it is as well that I didn’t head off to Bexley because the
village was closed by gas works. Again.
† A friend told me this morning that he was on a diverted bus that took the wrong
turning after which the driver simply didn’t know where to go. A passenger had to stand
at the front and guide him towards his destination.
2 December - Bexley Council is the biggest Story Teller of all
Bonkers
has been saying for some time now that the amount of money the Council has been
lavishing on its ambition to reopen its cinema disaster The Day After Tomorrow indicates
that there cannot be any refurbishment because even a sum in
excess of £100,000 is not nearly enough to re-equip three
screens. My dream of IMAX laser projection and Dolby Atmos is dashed.
@tonyofsidcup queried the refurbishment claim and received an immediate reply.
“With regard to the renovations, I’m not sure where that narrative has come
from. I understand there were some works required, but these were very minor.”
This from the man in charge of the project!
The refurbishment story came from the notice plastered over the cinema’s front
door and the Council’s Press Releases to the News Shopper (see enlarged images above) and others.
Maybe I misheard the Cabinet Member when he said he was a cinema buff, bluff may have been his claim.
1 December - How to dodge most of Rachel Reeves property taxes
If
you live in a band F or higher house and await being impoverished by our crooked Chancellor you might consider these social houses being flogged off by housing
associations in Bexley.
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/169421585#/?channel=RES_BUY - Dale Road, Crayford
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/169708481#/?channel=RES_BUY -
Ellenborough Road, Sidcup
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/169708478#/?channel=RES_BUY -
Ellenborough Road, Sidcup
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/169421624#/?channel=RES_BUY -
Ladbrooke Crescent, Sidcup
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/169383524#/?channel=RES_BUY -
Maiden Lane, Crayford
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/169708520#/?channel=RES_BUY -
Pembury Crescent, Sidcup
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/169708526#/?channel=RES_BUY -
Pembury Crescent, Sidcup
Note: Following the discovery of link errors within the cumulative list of addresses that appears on all
recent reports of
Housing Association sales and auctions it has been subjected to extensive revision.
Instead of individual reports carrying their own unique list of cumulative addresses there is now a single easier to
maintain list which is automatically repeated at the foot of every such report. This means that old reports will include the latest data.
List of auctioned Housing Association addresses with links to original blogs. Hover over address for date. (Revised 1st December 2025.)
Bexley
30 Bourne Mead - £165,000
2 Eynsford Crescent - £190,000
15 Marden Crescent - £300,000
Pengarth Road - £160+,000
34 Pengarth Road - £300,000
53 Pengarth Road - £310,000
Rye Close - £320,000
44 Stansted Crescent - £170,000
44 Stanstead Crescent - £140,000
Bexleyheath
Grove Road - £145,000
94 Halcot Avenue - £195,000
121 Halcot Avenue - £210,000
33 Oakhouse Road - £360,000
Parkside Avenue - £260,000
80 Pelham Road - £260,000
Crayford
Crayford Road - £270,000
Dale End - £139,000
1 Dale Road - £295,000
38 Dale Road - £270,000
65 Dale Road - £295,000
60 Heath Road - £249,000
83 Heath Road - £260,000
22B Iron Mill Lane - £275,000
179 Iron Mill Lane - 155,000
187 Iron Mill Lane - £135,000
235 Iron Mill Lane - £320,000
176 Maiden Lane - £255,000
191 Maiden Lane - £160,000
191 Maiden Lane - £160,000 (2nd auction)
206 Maiden Lane - £250,000
230 Maiden Lame - £250,000
234 Maiden Lane - £250,000
234 Maiden Lane - £175,000
4 Medway Road - £210,000
4 Medway Road - £270,000
4 Medway Road - £225,000
Russell Close - £155,000
44 Stansted Crescent - £170,000
20 Stour Road - £205,000
Erith
21 Athol Road - £220,000
Hilden Drive - £285,000
52 Jennington Road - £250,000
Springhead Road - £255,000
Sidcup
Burnham Road - £190,000
11 Diana Close - £275,000
Ellenborogh Road - £149,000
Ellenborogh Road - £155,000
Ellenborough Road - £269,000
5 Ellenborough Road - £210,000
63 Foots Cray Road - £325,000
2-48 Heron Crescent - Not priced
Ladbrooke Crescent - £220,000
Maddocks Close - £255,000
50 Mallard Walk, £180,000
Maylands Drive - £320,000
56 Maylands Drive - £200,000
56 Maylands Drive - £180,000
17 Partridge Road - £300,000
Pembury Crescent - £129,000
Pembury Crescent - £135,000
30 St. Andrew’s Road - £240,000
Welling
29 Beal Close - £250,000
19 Berwick Road - £275,000
39 Burnell Avenue - £300,000
18 Burnell Avenue - £280,000
79 Darenth Road - £275,000
47 Denton Road - £145,000
17 Ridley Road - £235,000
77 Tyrell Road - £290,000
2 Wycliffe Close - £310,000