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News and Comment May 2023

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11 May - Bexley Council pleasing no one again

Fendyke RoadThe Consultation period on extending the Abbey Wood CPZ restriction hours by a factor of five and increasing the cost of a permit by 25% ended yesterday and I did not get around to commenting - usual reasons applied.

I knew of two petitions against the proposals, one by a resident of Fendyke Road (pictured) and another by the owner of the refreshment Kiosk at Lesnes Abbey which Bexley Council would happily see go out of business.

My own view is that the proposals are taken straight out of Sadiq Khan’s book of unnecessary regulations. I can look straight down Fendyke Road from my front door and as the picture taken this afternoon shows it doesn’t have a parking problem. The 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. restriction is enough to successfully deter commuters. Maybe Abbey Road is different as it includes paid bays (£7·50 an hour, minimum two hours) which are arranged in a way which amount to entrapment of the unwary, but the CPZ comments I have heard have been entirely negative. They will if implemented cost residents money, make care and trade visits next to impossible and push any parking problem there may be into adjacent roads, viz. mine.

Craske’s scheme is unwanted, unnecessary and nothing but a cash grab with few benefits. ULEZ anybody?

I may not have had time to respond to to the Consultation but fortunately my Labour Councillors did.

I donְ’t like Facebook and rarely look at it and among the reasons is that the dictator who runs the show won’t allow the text to be copied to BiB so that readers who share my view of Facebook don’t have to log in to read it. So we have a screen shot instead.

It is very comprehensive and makes a very good job of covering the various issues. Read it carefully and I think you might conclude that my three Councillors are very politely saying that Bexley Council is run by uncaring and undemocratic incompetents who have already made up their minds as to what they want to do - ULEZ tactics again?

One must hope that Cabinet Member Craske is for once in his life in listening mode.
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