30 September - Month end trivia
Shabby Wood
Yesterday,
after being told that Abbey Wood Village was a dump I went to take a look. While
it is not far from home it is not a place I usually need to visit.
Exactly eight years ago Bexley Council made
a big song and dance about cleaning Wilton Road with their idiotically named
Lightning McLean street cleaning wagon. It looked like they had not been back
with it since so I dropped into one of the shops where I used to know the
manager quite well. He confirmed that so far as he knew, the road had not been
properly cleaned since.
The Greenwich side of the road, while not perfect, was not too bad. I didn’t
see any anti-social behaviour.
Simple but effective
I
assumed that the No Parking Notices installed to deter Elizabeth line commuters who
abuse residents’ spaces were a bluff because the cost of inspection would outweigh the revenue but maybe I was wrong. Yesterday an
unwanted visitor was given a ticket.
An inexpensive enforcement method would be to authorise one of the residents to monitor the spaces.
Bexley Council, through incompetence or vindictiveness, hides or omits many of its
parking signs but some rules are obvious; why do people still park on the pavement?
Go Ape hypocrisy
I
became curious about the Go Ape protesters; what is happening with their
Judicial Review etc. I looked around for information.
Apart from some references to the Planning meting last June all that Google
presented was their Facebook page, Just the Admins’s Notice. Will I be excused ?for finding it funny?
I found nothing relating to their Judicial Review.
By the way, I did not attempt to join the Go Ape Gaggle Group but since then I have
been forcibly joined to the Eltham SE9 group, The Pylon Appreciation Society and
British Birds Lovers. I didn’t ask to join any of them. Facebook is weird.
Ye Olde Leather Bottle
An enquiry to Bexley Council about its favourite
property developer and any action that it might be taking against his activities revealed that they
have one outstanding Court case in which he is named. Beyond confirming that it
was Leather Bottle related the Council would not say what it might be about.
Why? It must be on the Court records.
It is probably reasonable to suggest that they are
pursuing the loss of Footpath 11 and the general desolation which has
existed on Heron Hill for the past dozen years. The big question is why Bexley
Council Cabinet Members and Planning Chairman are so keen to associate
themselves with a company which has so litte regard for the law.
