Following complaints from residents Cllr Patrick Smith arranged for Sinnott Road to be brought up to the “A” standard we expect a road to be.

Below is a comment from a resident to Cllr Smith

  “I thank you once again, as I type this Email at 8.10 AM, there are at least two if not more Kier road sweepers along with their lorry, sweeping up our street.

Thank you Cllr Smith, you get my vote every time !!!”

Higham Hill Focus Team Councillors, Smith, Meiszner and Woollcott have organised `Ward Walks’ and are always available to meet with residents on issues, such as protecting Cherry trees and making the pavements safe for pedestrians in Lancaster Road/Mayfield Roads or Higham Hill Road.

Several new ideas from residents, for more tree  preservation, better consultation  to residents on tree pruning work and floral baskets, improved white line signage in Blackhorse Lane, are being followed up by the Council. 

 Cllr Meiszner is leading a `Residents`Survey’ this Summer on road safety along Billet Road and paying particular attention to residents requests for a Pelican crossing to the Sinnot Road/Lime Tree Doctors Surgery.

 If you have not yet met with Sean write to him at

70 Lawrence Avenue
Walthamstow E17 5PQ.

Or telephone 07838 182933

Higham Hill Focus Team Cllrs Smith, Meiszner and Woollcott have had many meetings with the architects and local schools on proposals re new Banbury Park.

Councillors are insisting that the new housing development contains:

 a new community health centrea new bus route from Tottenham Hale via Blackhorse Lane/Billet Road and through to Highams Park

accurate forecasts on the number of pre-5 school places for Nursery and Primary years

important new retail services/outlet.

new patrol base for Higham Hill SNT.

new built green design with maximum safe play space for children/families based on lowest density

Be a greenie not a meanie and learn about climate change at this year’s Green Fair

This year’s event at Lloyd and Aveling Park will take place 2pm-7pm, 20 July and will feature creative and musical work by young people inspired by William Morris’ cultural legacy

Visitors on the day will encounter a musical interpretation of William Morris’ green utopia within the park while artwork created by young people working with local artists will also be displayed.

There will also be plenty of information to help residents do their bit to tackle climate change and increase the amount they recycle, fun activities for children, live music, food and drink.

The Green Fair is the Council’s annual environmental event which aims to improve people’s awareness of green issues and help people to make the small changes to their lives, which can help to make a dramatic effect on the environment.

There are six Community Councils covering the Borough.The area you live in comes under Walthamstow West. The Council are changing the budget so that each Ward has £10,000 to spend on each ward.

Do you have any ideas on how this money should be spent within the community you live.

Cllr Patrick Smith says “Come along to the next meeting at the Walthamstow Academy, Billet Rd on the 6th of October and have your say.”

The Borough’s most popular park will be transformed after the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Big Lottery earmarked £3.6 million to renovate it. The Lottery body announced today (May 5) that Waltham Forest Council is to receive £167,000, which will be used to develop its plans to restore Lloyd and Aveling Park to its former glory and create new 21^st Century facilities. The funding will be used to carry out extensive planting, restoration of the park and improvements to its layout. Existing facilities such as the Changing Room Gallery will be improved and a new bowls centre and skate park will be built.The new look park will celebrate the life and work of William Morris and attract new visitors to the Gallery bearing his name.The Council has a year to make a detailed application for the £3.6million funding with a final decision from the HLF expected in August 2009. The authority will also be investing £1million of its own money to support the transformation. 

Kier Street Services are beginning to make an impact on our streets.

From the photo you can see an operative beginning to remove the detritus from the kerbs.

This should make all our streets look better.

On one of our regular ward walks the Focus Team were disgusted to see how much fly tipping had been deposited next to recycling facilities. We reported the following:  

Billet Road

Recycling point is currently extensively fly tipped. In fact we moved some of this to ensure the path was still accessible.

McKentee Avenue

One of the two waste bins there is missing and the area has been fly tipped with predominantly gardening waste.  A supermarket trolley is full of concrete.

Higham Street

Both recycling points have been fly tipped, with a tyre left at the end of the street.

Sutton Road

The recycling point there is again a fly tipping point.

 Don’t dump it phone 0208 496 3000 and arrange for your rubbish to be collected. The Council allow three free collections of furniture a year.

Samina Safdar has become the twentieth Liberal Democrat councillor in Waltham Forest after taking the vacant Forest ward seat in last night’s by-election. The full result was: 

SAMINA SAFDAR (LIB DEM) 977

Jawade Liaqat (Labour) 927 

Edwin Northover (Conservative) 507 

Mark Dawes (Green) 184 

Makola Mayambika (Left List) 56 

Turnout 32.33 per cent, 2,661 votes cast