3 November - Singh, Steward, Sold and Sense
2 West Heath Road, Abbey Wood
Residents
of West Heath Road are watching developments at No. 2 very carefully, and so they should if
their researches are correct for they believe it has been bought by Kulvinder Singh.
It is Mr. Singh who encroached on Lesnes Abbey Woods with
his massive concrete slab.
Unlike 238 Woolwich Road, the West Heath Road address has a planning application. 18/02505/FUL.
Mr. Singh likes to buy old pubs and The Drayman is on his extensive list to his
list. Despite being granted permission for nine dwellings on the site in
November 2013, neighbours are only now reporting
lorry loads of materials being delivered.
Abbey Wood (Wilton Road) is due to temporarily lose the Abbey Arms quite soon but fortunately Mr. Singh has not got is hands on it.
Councillors have been informed of Mr. Singh’s alleged activities in West Heath Road so that they can be carefully monitored.
Mr. Singh’s business interests.
Gill Steward
Gill Steward left her position as Chief Executive of Bexley Council “due to a change in her personal circumstances”.
A couple of weeks later she was doing
much the same job for Kingston Council and
coming under fire for allegedly exaggerating her qualifications. It suggests that
the changed personal circumstances were just a lie which will come as a surprise to no one.
More interesting is a comment from within Bexley Council, it says the last straw that got her the sack was
spending £20,000 on new microphones in the Council
Chamber. Those of us with elderly ears think it may have been the only good
thing that Gill Steward ever did in Bexley.
It has been further suggested that Bexley is not a borough that would-be Chief
Executives are queuing up to be working in. Whether this is because Council Leader
Teresa O’Neill OBE makes an Obnoxious Bossy Employer or because this blog wrecks
any reputation they may have had I have no idea.
Good news for long time Bexley Director Paul Moore!
The Quarry
This development has not been given much coverage on Bonkers, it’s more Maggot
Sandwich territory and a month ago Hugh Neal reported that
none had been made available to buy just yet. This was slightly in conflict
with what L&Q were saying at the time, That was “the first phase is all
sold”, and the Land Registry tends to confirm it.
Eight flats on Loampit Road were sold and another eight on Strata Road, all for
£104,259 and all on 24th October last year which was a Tuesday, not a weekend
site open day. The speculation is that they share a common purchaser and the
price suggests a 50% part buy part rent scheme. Who would do that? Bexley
Council, Russian Oligarchs? Whoever it was it doesn’t look like 16 regular
buyers of the type The Quarry was meant to attract to Erith.
Asda, Bexleyheath Broadway
Asda is not a shop I ever use, a disabled friend once asked me to help him shop there
and said it was his preferred destination because their car parking was easy and convenient, which it was but that has been the
full extent of my knowledge of Asda Bexleyheath.
However I walked around it last weekend to see if there were any electric car chargers
there and found the car park packed, no way would I consider it to be a viable
parking destination for myself. For the record I found four electric car chargers, every
one of them blocked by cars that relied totally on their petrol tanks.
It’s can only be a big waste of money to install chargers that cannot be used.
My experience of a packed car park was reflected in a reader’s email. He said that Asda has covered
its parking ticket machine and switched over to three hours free parking and in doing
so exposed the pent up demand for parking in Bexleyheath. Asda’s management exhibit
good sense while Bexley Council adopts policies which harm town centre trade.
The same reader recently described how another shopping centre was
saved by the policies of a more intelligent council.