19 March (Part 1) - Oh no! More regeneration
If
you use the shops in Northumberland Heath and have been unimpressed by the
regeneration of Bexleyheath and Sidcup, Bexley council’s promise to do the same
for Northumberland Heath may not be what you want to hear.
Northumberland Heath seems to me to be one of Bexley’s better small shopping centres with a
good variety of traders but a council press release yesterday announced ‘public space improvements’.
The proposals include ‘renewing street furniture, minimising street clutter and new
planting’. Much the same wording used to describe previous street disruption.
There will be a display to illustrate the proposals at North Heath Library from
next Monday through to 11th April and work is scheduled to commence in the
summer with the money coming directly from Bexley’s taxpayers.