6 April - Another Craske failure, inevitably
No sooner had I written “Bexley Council doesn’t care” yesterday but
Councillor Sally Hinkley was at my door (with colleagues Esther Amaning and
Daniel Francis at doors opposite) to show that the Belvedere Labour Councillors at least, do.
Sally’s letter to residents announced that the area North of Lesnes Abbey (me)
will belatedly follow the area to the South and be allowed a consultation on the
scourge of inconsiderate commuter parking. Presumably it will not resemble
the
last Consultation in 2007 in which Cabinet Member Craske decided against
circulating it to all of the affected area but went outside it instead and then
dismissed every single objection.
It is fairly easy, if you have watched Bexley Council as closely as I have, to
deduce that Councillor Craske may be the biggest reason for the borough slowly
declining. Just look at his reason given below for ignoring the Abbey Wood parking problems.
Thanks to the three plus year delay to the opening of the Elizabeth line for
which he erroneously blames Mayor Khan, Craske has had an extra three years in
which to formulate a traffic management plan.
There was no “inevitability” about his failure to act;
surely the lamest ever of his lame excuses? Parking issues have been
a
feature of BiB for the past (almost) ten years and become a significant problem since
24th May 2022. It has been featured widely, everywhere from the local press
to the BBC
and Craske has done nothing apart from drawing his £2,000 a month allowance.
More on the Consultation later. Meanwhile a
couple of Craske non-answers.
