Follow this (link) for a diagram of the proposed road safety improvements to Grove Road. This includes safety measures to be introduced to the Chadwell Heath Lane junction. The works are the responsibility of George Wimpey Construction and were to be an obligation as part of the agreed planning application for the former Chadwell Heath Hospital site.
The design was approved by our Highways team in 2003, however, bungling Highways officers and your previous Liberal Councillors allowed the works to slip off the radar!
Fortunately, residents residing along Chadwell Heath Lane contacted us after frequent motor vehicle accidents at the aforementioned junction. Immediately Wilson, Juliet and Isla fashioned and collected over 100 signatures for a petition and submitted it to the Highways Team, as a consequence the proposed works resurfaced.
We have continued to challenge for the works to proceed and recently informed you of a delay in Wimpey selecting a contractor. However, since then further delays have ensued. It transpires that the telecom mast installation near the junction occurred after the attached design was approved. Underground cabling from this mast must be relocated before road works can proceed. This is the very same mast that your former Liberal councillors permitted. Moreover, the same Councillors were also going to allow a second mast on the other side of the junction, for a different telephone company. This would have further aggravated the scheduling of works. We were responsible for the rejection of the second proposed mast (many of you signed our petition), Council officers instead convinced the mast operators to share the mast. It would seem Chadwell residents have once again benefited from the endeavours of your local Green Party.
Your former Liberal Councillors seemd to be staunch proponents for the need of more Telecom masts. When Wilson opposed a mast at Redbridge College Cllr Staight sent a flurry of letters explaining the virtues of telecom masts. He seemed oblivious to the fact that operators could share masts. Wilson stopped a debate that was ongoing for several weeks with the letter below:
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Whilst your newly elected Labour Councillors are still to undertake any work to improve the quality of life for local people, we have continued our ongoing efforts. We shall continue pressing our Highways team to ensure George Wimpey expedite the proposed road safety works. I asked a senior highways officer to describe the new scheme:
“As I described to you, the scheme provides for 3 refuges in Grove Road - 2 South of Hevingham Drive and an upgraded one at the junction at Chadwell Heath Lane. There will also be a refuge as you enter into Hevingham Drive.
A central red surfaced and hatched 'ghost island' will run along the centre of Grove Road. There will be kerb build outs in Chadwell Heath Lane to improve visibility and carriageway widening/footway reduction at the end of Grove Road on the Hevingham Road side.”
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