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.
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We’re live tweeting the Area One committee #wanstead
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Speed guns to be used on Wellington Road in the mornings, police say #wanstead #area1
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@Wansteadium excellent. Any chance they could wait around by Snaresbrook tube to catch motorists jumping red lights / texting too?
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Councillors “support Wanstead Socy proposal for Evergreen Field” for open community space #wanstead #area1
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Field has “highest degree of protection” says Cllr Cummins #area1 #wanstead
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Consultation on future of field to run from 7 Jan says Cllr Alex Wilson. Residents should take part. #wanstead #area1
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Loose manhole on New Wanstead sounds like gunfire when cars go over it, resident says. #wanstead #area1
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Removal of railings on pavements has improved safety, Cllr says. But lots of OLOL kids scoot around the High Stone says resident. #wanstead
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Petition of almost 500 handed in opposing more parking controls #wanstead #area1
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Parking restrictions’ one-year trial has had ‘devastating effect’ on shops, dentists, doctors, says parking Michael Powis.
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Restrictions have ‘set one street against another’, with each blaming the other, says Powis #wanstead #area1
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Parents dropping kids at schools on Cambridge Park ‘have nightmare’, having to park 4-5 streets away, mother says. #wanstead #area1
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Meeting shown pictures of deserted Spratt Hall Road during day, with parking restrictions in operation. #wanstead #area1
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Spratt Hall Road resident says they oppose “triple use” which would allow business permits and pay+display as well as residents #wanstead
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He also opposes introduction of bays at Belgique end. “Life is good now,” he says #wanstead #area1
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And scheme should operate at weekends too, he says. #wanstead #area1 #parking
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5,000 people who signed anti-parking petition last year “thought Wanstead had been saved”, says resident. #wanstead #area1
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People will consider non-payment of council tax in protest, she says. “People of Wanstead have been betrayed.” #area1 #wanstead
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Parking schemes are “sticking plaster”, when one-hour ban had been effective. “It’s creating a very un-Wanstead feeling,” resident says.
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Nigel Burch, Redbridge highways officer, says the anti-pay&display petition “really has no bearing” on residents’ permit #wanstead
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He says he had “no idea” if residents’ permits scheme is damaging business on Wanstead High Street #wanstead #area1
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“Business is hard for all sorts of reasons,” he says. #wanstead #area1 #parking
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Shouldn’t there be a Wanstead-wide consultation on parking rather than just a few streets, asks resident. #wanstead #area1 #parking
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How would you analyse the results, asks Nigel Burch. #parking #area1 #wanstead
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Dangan Rd resident says why not keep residents’ permits but limit hours of operation to just one hour to keep commuters out. #wanstead
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@Barkingside21 no
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Parking “not high on the agenda” for Wanstead businesses says Cllr Nolan. “It’s Westfield.” #wanstead #area1
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Residents in Wanstead have been consulted over parking more than the rest of the borough put together, says Cllr Alex Wilson #wanstead
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“Consider yourself lucky you don’t live in Waltham Forest,” says Cllr Nolan re consultation. #wanstead #area1
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Controlled parking zone to be extended to Church Path and Fitzgerald Road, Area 1 committee decides. #wanstead #area1
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Triple use bays (residents, businesses & 20min school drop) not to be introduced in Spratt Hall Rd, committee decides. #wanstead #area1
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Council paper says traffic flows on Wellington Road are low and that there have been no personal accidents in past 3yrs. #wanstead #area1
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Wellington Rd ratrun: 200 cars per day exceed speed limit, monitoring shows says resident Dr Hodgkinson #wanstead #area1
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Wellington Rd resident says older people and mothers are scared to cross road and that a boy *was* knocked over outside Bptist Ch #wanstead
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Recommendation from officers is that no further action is taken. Wellington Rd residents v exercised. #wanstead #area1
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Meeting told Wellington Rd is 114th in borough’s prioritised list of traffic problems – there is funding for 8-10 schemes. #wanstead #area1
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Cllr Nolan “couldn’t in heart” support scheme to address Wellington Rd above roads where someone has already been killed #wanstead #area1
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Residents say they have ideas which won’t cost money – cllrs agree to meet residents to talk it all over. #wanstead #area1
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The 2013 Wanstead Festival will get £10k from the council, and be held on 15 Sept. (@wansteadium plan for conker tournament back on track!)
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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
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Two new bins for Christchurch Green. The cost? £1200! #wanstead #area1
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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
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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/
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