Archive for the ‘Local Services’

Published July 23rd, 2008

A Clean Sinnott Road

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 !!!”

Published July 19th, 2008

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.

Published June 19th, 2008

Kier Street Services

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.

Published June 13th, 2008

WARD WALKS

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.

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