Builders... a common theme

Came across these photos... taken 18 months ago (March 2007) during the build of the care home.

Having taken over the real footpath the builders finally constructed a temporary footpath/walkway made for residents. And it was looking good here - as long as you didn't have a buggy, wheelchair, shopping trolley...

And it got worse - this is what happened to it just around the corner... it transformed itself into a dumping ground for the builders.

Why do builders repeatedly get away with such bad business practices in this part of the borough?

A sense of humour...

Someone obviously has one although I'm not sure that local residents had much of one after giving police statements at 4am in the morning.



So, pictures speak for themselves really pretty grim - but look, is that a car parked on yellow lines?




Certainly is... and not a parking ticket in sight...

The Housing Crisis...

Leave a house empty and it falls into disrepair. Leave a prefab empty in South Tottenham and it falls into disrepair extremely quickly, is vandalised, is squatted, used as a public rubbish dump, costs public services large amounts of money putting out fires, turfing out squatters, securing once, twice, thrice the empty properties – and of course it doesn’t help the housing crisis.

The prefabs have been a major blight on this area for over four years. Two have been vacant for all that time – and more!

In July we were promised that they would be flattened in September ready for Sanctuary (the housing association responsible for the building of Newton Road building / parking fame) – even if building was delayed. And it’s now January and the rubbish is mounting…

Sadly, the pictures taken on a grey day really don’t do that side of the street justice. I’ll try and get some on a nice sunny day when the filth and shocking state of disrepair is really apparent.

More missing banksmen...

More reports of no banksmen being in evidence even though lipservice is paid to it.

Interesting to note the sign saying it's a restricted site. There's one further along that talks of children not playing there - but it's OK, everyone gets to play in the road.

More recent reports of people who should know better allowing site visitors to park on the pavements and restrict access by pedestrians and not ensuring the vehicle was moved when approached about it. Hey ho.


There was some talk of screening from the road... I don't think this is what we had in mind...

Where's a banksman when you need one - or the two promised?

3.10pm - Wednesday 7 January 2009
Large digger reverses out of first gate without a banksman and drives round and enters the gate on the other side.

3.30pm - Wednesday 7 January 2009
School kicking out time so now parents with young children and secondary school children around... 8 wheeler lorry reverses into the site using the pavement - no banksman in evidence - and certainly not the two promised.

Also, a slight aside, given the arctic conditions we're suffering at the moment, perhaps spraying the road with water isn't quite so sensible at the moment nor washing vans on pavements where pedestrians have to walk...

Meanwhile the council invests in repositioning CPZ posts...

Why? The old one worked perfectly well - and in a no through road with only 20 houses just a little unecessary? There are two that now list at a 45 degree angle meaning another call to the council to report work to be redone... And this must be happening all over the borough...

Can't these people count?

“Considerate builders”

abide by their 8 car parking permit

with

14 vehicles (from cars to transit vans)

1 skip

2 containers (not shown)

2 empty spaces

And with an official permit that expired at the end of December there’s not a single parking ticket in sight!

How many visitors permits do you have to buy to have friends, family, doctors, workmen visit?

2 containers and space for 8 cars... or that's what the permission sign says!

These photos were taken midday midweek in January. And for the record I counted up: 2 aerial installation transit vans (same company) /1 white transit (no logo) /1 saloon car /1 space - no barrier /1 mini van- no logos /1 silver golf type car/1 space - no barrier/ 1 work van (building company) /2 containers /1 building mini van /gap for their entrance /1 skip

And of course it doesn't just end there does it? There's the dirt that's left on the road, the delivery vans are parked in the middle of the road at 8.30 and normal road users are told to drive on the pavement...

This has been going on for months... Similar things (and more!) went on when they built the care home next door. Similar things will continue to go in with every building put up in this area unless people and businesses start to complain.

Newton Road, N15