Saturday, 21 February 2009

O'Donovans - the saga continues...

So, O'D's are now continuing their business expansion. Obviously been in the pipeline since before the meeting with residents on 2 December - for which we are still awaiting Council minutes. Hmm. Yes, look after businesses in the borough - but at what cost to residents?

A meeting took place (apparently) with 'officials' re the road system there - but who knows what happened there. We haven't been told. Was it simply to pacify residents - the 60 odd page document produced by O'Ds would lead us to think so. In essence it was puffery - it asked us to provide evidence. So we are / have and will continue to do so. Basically...

Nothing has changed since that meeting in fact...

..the situation is now WORSE having been exacerbated by their EXPANSION. They now have three sites - two on Markfield Road - one at top, and one at bottom, one on Constable Crescent and of course they are now parking in the middle of Markfield Road too (right next to the large housing complex being built!) Not a bit of road that they can't call their own.

Banksmen - the tales of missing banksmen are too numerous to mention. Are they the first casualties of an economic downturn? (Commerce over the people?)

Filth - the dirt when taking the kids to school means I and others drive (Haringey the Green Borough)

Yellow line parking & appropriating the only bits of non CPZ road in this area to further their business. Yep, it goes on.

Speed - nothing still beats the fact that I witnessed one of their lorries exhanging numbers with the driver of a car exiting the retail park at the time of the watermain burst and all traffic was travelling at 10mph. The van completed decimated the right front of the saloon car. Ironically, that was just as I left the meeting with O'Ds and the Council at the Technopark offices. They say they don't speed. And of course in that instance, it MAY not have been his fault but their vehicles drive TOO FAST and are TOO BIG and TOO MANY are UNREGISTERED for public roads.

Ooh look, here's one I caught earlier - without even trying! And don't say it was because of the snow...













- Their neighbours diagonally opposite their main site now drive as fast, if not faster, than O'Donovans, accessing their site just where people are coming out of the tunnel (ie from the dark!)

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