The unusual site banners are to bring attention to the fact that Labour activists in Bexley are manipulating Facebook Groups with fictional posters. They deny it, threaten police action for ‘harassing’ a fictitious character and then demonstrate their willingness to impersonate by creating a false Administrator account in my name. The banner on display is chosen randomly from a selection of three, with a fourth bearing the familiar Bexley Council is Bonkers logo.
19 February (Part 1) - Another Leather Bottle?
A reader suggested I
take a look at the News Shopper and its report on the redevelopment plans
for the car park at the Foresters Arms in East Wickham. An application to build four three
bedroom houses on the site has been submitted by the Wellington Pub Company.
The reader also suggested I search Bexley Council’s planning portal for similar
applications from the same developer. After going through several documents both
The Drayman (planning permission granted in 2013) and Fanny on the Hill (2016) were
linked with the Wellington Pub Company. There may be more.
So why might that be interesting?
Well in both cases Balmonza Ltd took over the sites and Balmonza is the company famed for its association with
Ye Olde Leather Bottle and
Lesnes Abbey Woods.
Is history about to repeat itself?
Note: Following the above publication another reader referred me to the White
Hart in Erith which became the Potion Bar and notorious for the wrecking of a
historic facade. Bexley Council’s planning portal again leads to the Wellington
Pub Company and Balmonza’s associate company Dhadda, a link also noted by
From The
Murky Depths in October last year. One of my political sources doesn’t
understand why “Bexley Council seems to embrace Mr. Singh”. Many of us share
that same puzzlement.