| Topic: | Re:Re:Council refuse to accept Lammas Park Petition | |
| Posted by: | Simon Hayes | |
| Date/Time: | 31/01/25 17:57:00 |
| Not round Lammas Park though. The pictures used by the council to justify this scheme are displayed on boards attached to the fencing around the works. Mostly showing large puddles rather than flooding (and there is a massive difference between those two things). The pictures of Culmington Road would indicate the issue is more to do with blocked drains than anything sudden, catastrophic overland water flow. At acresudents meeting last year Cllr Gareth Shaw told those present that the works were designed to mitigate flooding in Junction Road, some half a mile to the south, under which a stream flows. There’s not been flooding there in living memory, although a burst water main did create a nice stream on the road the day after a hosepipe ban came into force. Clearly councillors are saying whatever comes into their heads, even if there’s not an ounce of truth in it. If you had been following this story Angela, you would know that the works weren’t well publicized beforehand and have dragged on way beyond the timescale originally envisioned, mainly because the contractors are incompetent and went beyond the planning consent given in 2023. A new application has seen a host of objections from residents living next to the park and those who are regular users of it. These are intrusive and unnecessary excavations, involving the loss of huge swathes of open parkland next to the children’s playground. Maybe you think a bit of road turned into a play area on Leighton Road is a compensation, but most don’t think it is. Most likely this is a sop to show how green the council is, considering it is about to embark on a massive building project on the Gurnell site, which is on a flood plain and regularly floods. But then Labour no longer think there is a climate emergency, hence the Heathrow decision. |