Published June 4th, 2008
FIRST OF MANY RECYCLING STATIONS
Pictured Lib Dem Councillor Bob Belam with Michael Hayes National Express Environmental Champion at Chingford Station.
This is the first paper recycling facility to be opened at a transport hub in the borough.National Express and the council are looking at ways of installing these facilities at main line stations across the borough.
The council is talking to LU with a view to having recycling at all Underground stations by the end of the year.
If you want something done it is the LIB DEMS who get it done
Published May 16th, 2008
Racist Graffiti
Below are the actions taken following a spate of racist graffiti. It is so offensive that we will not publish photo’s here.
Your Lib Dem councillors are appalled by this action.
Over the last 2 days, there has been a rash of racist graffiti applied to a variety of surfaces, predominantly brickwork but also painted surfaces, footways and road ways. The slogan “Jihad is the only solution for Israel” seems to have been applied using a stencil. This means that the graffiti can be applied quickly and discretely.So far, the majority of locations have been in the Walthamstow area.
Over the course of Thursday 14th May, crews dealt with this graffiti at approximately 18 locations, in addition to dealing with other graffiti work. Unfortunately, we were not able to mobilise overtime resources at short notice and because removing graffiti is a specialist activity.
We are starting this morning with a list of 20 sites, some of which involve multiple items. We will have 2 Jet wash crews working in the Walthamstow area. We expect to receive and pass additional sitings to the crews over the course of the day.
This evening we expect to have at least 2 crews working overtime, in combination, catching up with normal day to day graffiti and with any racist graffiti which comes in today that is not dealt with in normal time. We also expect to field at least one crew over the weekend.
Through Gareth Jones and Sian Hasler, there have been discussions both with TJAG and the Police. We have asked that this be a particular area for attention across all shifts.
We do not know when this graffiti is being applied or whether one or more people are involved. However, if those involved are to be caught it may be that we can draw them back into re-graffiting the same sites, particularly if we can try and contain the activity to the Walthamstow area.
In order for us to respond as quickly and efficiently as possible, we need assistance from those reporting and those handling reports. We need precise locations. If we also know in advance what surface the graffiti is on, we can determine whether it requires a specialist jet wash crew to respond or whether we can deploy other resources to paint over. We also need the reports to get to us as quickly and directly as possible.
Members of the public should raise these items as service requests. Councillors are also recommended to raise as service requests, because our method of operation has been set up, and recently refined, to deal with service requests as quickly as possible. For internal purposes or outside normal hours, the following phone numbers apply:
7:00 - 5:00 Monday to Friday Street Cleaning Office 020 8496 2588/2593
Outside normal hours; Andy Lyon, Operations Manager 07896 509 291
Published May 12th, 2008
POTHOLES
The Focus Team have today reported potholes in Lawrence Avenue which are increasing in size.
If you know of others in your road please contact a member of the Focus Team
Published May 12th, 2008
FLYTIPPING AT GARNETT WAY WITH THE JUNCTION WITH MCENTEE AVENUE
There are a number of bags dumped next to the bins at the above location.
This is a hotspot for fly tipping.
Don’t dump it phone 020 8496 3000 and arrange for a free collection.
Published May 9th, 2008
Community Councils
There are six Community Councils covering the Borough and each have an annual budget of £10,000 to spend in their local area.
The area you live in comes under Walthamstow West.
The Council are changing the budget so that each ward has £10,000 to spend.
Your ward is Higham Hill.
Do you have any ideas on how this money should be spent within the community you live.
Does your local park need improvement?. Does your local nursery need new equipment?
Contact the Higham Hill Focus Team
FREEPOST RLYG-BTER-YLJZ
92 Douglas Avenue Walthamstow E17 5BW
Published April 18th, 2008
Pennant Terrace and Rushbrook Crescent.
Published March 22nd, 2008
DON’T DUMP IT PHONE 8496 3000
Once again people are dumping rubbish all over Higham Hill ward.
If you have rubbish that you need to get rid of either take it to the facility in
South Access Road or call 8496 3000 and arrange a pre-booked appointment for collection
DON’T LEAVE IT ON OUR STREETS
Published March 20th, 2008
`Planners `wrong’ with Paper Mill thumbs up’
Cllrs Peter Woollcott and Sean Meiszner have spoken out on this `wrong- headed’ Sutherland Road new development rated as grossly overcrowded with 240 units.
Cllr Woollcott said at the second Planning Meeting that there were not enough 3/4 bed properties in the design and the underground car park was a security risk.
Cllr Meiszner said `I think Officers and Members have to accept that they got it wrong. It will be intensely over developed’
Higham Hill Cllrs urge residents to vote for Brian Paddick in the Mayor Election May Ist to put an end to this London Plan that is responsible for gross mis -management on social housing real need, creating over-development instead, on sites like Sutherland Road.
Published March 20th, 2008
Easter recycling and waste collections
Waste and recycling collections will continue as normal over the Easter Bank Holidays on Friday 21 March 2008 and Monday 24 March 2008.
Published March 14th, 2008
Local Lib Dems Attack ‘Cynical’ Attitude to Post Office Closures
Walthamstow councillors have launched a stinging attack on Labour parliamentary candidate Stella Creasy by accusing her of “two-faced cynicism” over local post office closures.
The Labour parliamentary candidate has attempted to position herself at the centre of efforts to save the three Walthamstow post offices threatened with closure. However, during her time as councillor for Walthamstow’s Lea Bridge ward she attempted to vote down a Liberal Democrat motion to Full Council that called on the Council to oppose the government’s closure programme.
The angry reaction by local Liberal Democrats comes as they prepare to present a further motion to Full Council that calls on councillors from all sides to state their opposition to post office closures.
Cllr Bob Carey, whose Chapel End ward could see two branches axed, said: “It is galling to see Ms Creasy jump on the bandwagon with regards to these closures. “Unfortunately for her, people have longer memories than she may give them credit for. As a councillor 5 years ago, she, along with her Labour colleagues, attempted to remove a clause from a Liberal Democrat motion that expressed concern about both the effect of proposed post office closures on the vulnerable and elderly and the distance that they would be forced to travel in order to access vital services.
“Now resident outcry about these Government closures has reached a crescendo, we hear her become one of those rushing to repeat these concerns almost parrot-like.
“I’m sure that residents will see this two-faced scramble to act as a champion for our most vulnerable residents as little more than a cynical act of political chicanery.
Cllr Carey, who will move the Liberal Democrat motion before Full Council, warned that opposition to the six immediate proposed closures in Waltham Forest was only the beginning of the work that needed to be done.
“ Post Office representatives confirmed to council scrutiny just this week that even if we are successful in saving one of the six branches immediately under threat, this would more than likely mean another branch closed in order to meet the required quota of government closures. “We hope both Labour and the Conservative councillors will support our motion this Thursday and come out strongly against the government’s closure programme.
