Tennis Courts across the borough are set to receive thousands of pounds worth of investment to restore the courts, improve security and enable online bookings.
In November, Bromley Councils’ Executive vote to refuse an application from Biggin Hill Airport to amend the terms of their lease, and allow spare seats on planes to be sold.
I am delighted to report that on the 22nd November, Bromley Council’s Environment Committee voted to approve two-year trial to allow wildflowers to grow on grass verges at selected locations across the borough.
October was dominated by the news from late September that Southeastern plan to remove the Cannon Street services on the Hayes Line from December. Along with my fellow Councillors, and Bob Stewart MP, I have been running a petition calling for the plans to be abandoned.
On the 22nd October Councillor Alexa Michael and I met with the Council’s Executive Member for Transport, Highways and Road Safety, Nicholas Bennett, to take our colleague for a tour of the ward and show him the areas of concerns on local roads.
In September, Southeastern announced their new timetable which will take effect from the 11thDecember. Unfortunately, this includes removing the services from Hayes to Cannon Street from the line. All services will instead go to Charing Cross.
At the end of September, I attended the Rights of Way Sub-Committee which was meeting to vote on whether a bridal path should be installed over Hayes Street Farm.
August is usually a quiet month, many people are on holiday and there are no scheduled committee meetings for the month. As such I have not done a video for the month as this report is brief.
In July I submitted a formal objection to the telecoms tower proposed for Commonside Car Park; citing concerns about the height, proximity to houses, loss of parking and damage to green spaces in a conversation area as the core reasons.
