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Wanstead News: Parking, speeding and bins

Posted on Monday, 26 November, 2012Monday, 26 November, 2012 by Wansteadium

In a Wansteadium first, we live-tweeted the Area One committee, the Redbridge Council meeting which is focused on Wanstead and Snaresbrook. It was held amid heated scenes at the Wanstead Church School on Monday evening.

  1. We’re live tweeting the Area One committee #wanstead

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    4 hours ago

  2. Speed guns to be used on Wellington Road in the mornings, police say #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    4 hours ago

  3. @Wansteadium excellent. Any chance they could wait around by Snaresbrook tube to catch motorists jumping red lights / texting too?

    — Alan (@grimnorth)
    4 hours ago

  4. Councillors “support Wanstead Socy proposal for Evergreen Field” for open community space #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  5. Field has “highest degree of protection” says Cllr Cummins #area1 #wanstead

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  6. Consultation on future of field to run from 7 Jan says Cllr Alex Wilson. Residents should take part. #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  7. Loose manhole on New Wanstead sounds like gunfire when cars go over it, resident says. #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  8. Removal of railings on pavements has improved safety, Cllr says. But lots of OLOL kids scoot around the High Stone says resident. #wanstead

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  9. Petition of almost 500 handed in opposing more parking controls #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  10. Parking restrictions’ one-year trial has had ‘devastating effect’ on shops, dentists, doctors, says parking Michael Powis.

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  11. Restrictions have ‘set one street against another’, with each blaming the other, says Powis #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  12. Parents dropping kids at schools on Cambridge Park ‘have nightmare’, having to park 4-5 streets away, mother says. #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  13. Meeting shown pictures of deserted Spratt Hall Road during day, with parking restrictions in operation. #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  14. Spratt Hall Road resident says they oppose “triple use” which would allow business permits and pay+display as well as residents #wanstead

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  15. He also opposes introduction of bays at Belgique end. “Life is good now,” he says #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  16. And scheme should operate at weekends too, he says. #wanstead #area1 #parking

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  17. 5,000 people who signed anti-parking petition last year “thought Wanstead had been saved”, says resident. #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  18. People will consider non-payment of council tax in protest, she says. “People of Wanstead have been betrayed.” #area1 #wanstead

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  19. Parking schemes are “sticking plaster”, when one-hour ban had been effective. “It’s creating a very un-Wanstead feeling,” resident says.

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  20. Nigel Burch, Redbridge highways officer, says the anti-pay&display petition “really has no bearing” on residents’ permit #wanstead

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  21. He says he had “no idea” if residents’ permits scheme is damaging business on Wanstead High Street #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  22. “Business is hard for all sorts of reasons,” he says. #wanstead #area1 #parking

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  23. Shouldn’t there be a Wanstead-wide consultation on parking rather than just a few streets, asks resident. #wanstead #area1 #parking

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  24. How would you analyse the results, asks Nigel Burch. #parking #area1 #wanstead

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    3 hours ago

  25. Dangan Rd resident says why not keep residents’ permits but limit hours of operation to just one hour to keep commuters out. #wanstead

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    2 hours ago

  26. @Barkingside21 no

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    2 hours ago

  27. Parking “not high on the agenda” for Wanstead businesses says Cllr Nolan. “It’s Westfield.” #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    2 hours ago

  28. Residents in Wanstead have been consulted over parking more than the rest of the borough put together, says Cllr Alex Wilson #wanstead

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    2 hours ago

  29. “Consider yourself lucky you don’t live in Waltham Forest,” says Cllr Nolan re consultation. #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    2 hours ago

  30. Controlled parking zone to be extended to Church Path and Fitzgerald Road, Area 1 committee decides. #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    2 hours ago

  31. Triple use bays (residents, businesses & 20min school drop) not to be introduced in Spratt Hall Rd, committee decides. #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    2 hours ago

  32. Council paper says traffic flows on Wellington Road are low and that there have been no personal accidents in past 3yrs. #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    2 hours ago

  33. Wellington Rd ratrun: 200 cars per day exceed speed limit, monitoring shows says resident Dr Hodgkinson #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    2 hours ago

  34. Wellington Rd resident says older people and mothers are scared to cross road and that a boy *was* knocked over outside Bptist Ch #wanstead

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    2 hours ago

  35. Recommendation from officers is that no further action is taken. Wellington Rd residents v exercised. #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    2 hours ago

  36. Meeting told Wellington Rd is 114th in borough’s prioritised list of traffic problems – there is funding for 8-10 schemes. #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    2 hours ago

  37. Cllr Nolan “couldn’t in heart” support scheme to address Wellington Rd above roads where someone has already been killed #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    2 hours ago

  38. Residents say they have ideas which won’t cost money – cllrs agree to meet residents to talk it all over. #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    an hour ago

  39. The 2013 Wanstead Festival will get £10k from the council, and be held on 15 Sept. (@wansteadium plan for conker tournament back on track!)

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    an hour ago

  40. Music in Wanstead Park lost £2k this year because of rain. It *was* a stinker of a day. Council to give £1.5k for 2013 #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    an hour ago

  41. Two new bins for Christchurch Green. The cost? £1200! #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    an hour ago

  42. Cllr Chan says benches on Wanstead High St look a bit teddy. Yep, that’s what he said. He is told the word is tatty. #wanstead #area1

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    an hour ago

  43. And that’s it, you lucky folk. #wanstead #area1 You can sign up for Wansteadium e-mail newsletter here: https://www.wansteadium.com/about-wansteadium/get-wansteadium-by-e-mail/

    — Wansteadium (@Wansteadium)
    an hour ago

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