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News and Comment January 2025

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3 January (Part 2) - Six months and nothing!

Drive blocking Drive blocking Drive blockingIt is only the second working day of the New Year but the Liz line commuters are at it again. I didn’t look outside until 09:40 and assumed someone was dropping something off to a neighbour but after 20 minutes I sent a photo to Bexley Council who turned up not many minutes later. (Photo 2)

M4 MSU was entirely blocking the driveway to six of my neighbours’ parking spaces and every part of the vehicle was in front of their dropped kerb.

Unusually I was not blocked in myself and was able to let a returning neighbour park on my drive (Photo 3) so that he didn’t get a ticket too.

It is almost exactly six months since Bexley Council consulted locally on a Controlled Parking Zone and I am pretty sure that residents voted heavily in favour. However the Council has done nothing obvious apart from insisting that it was not a Consultation but only an informal survey. An informal survey plastered with the word Consultation and sent out by Royal Mail.

At the November Transport Sub-Committee meeting the Cabinet Member said he had asked for all the information to be with him by the end of that month. In an email dated 21st October I was told that residents would get an update on the situation in November. Needless to say, none of us have. Meanwhile there is inconvenience to residents almost daily.

 

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