| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Another one bites the dust | Forum Home |
| Posted by: | Guy Lambert | |
| Date/Time: | 26/08/19 23:04:00 |
| Tracie I completely disagree with your assessment of Trimmer. It is more or less exactly as it was in appearance. Cleaned up, and with a door where one of the side windows used to be and a french door invisible from the street. I will leave others to come to their own conclusions. No, I shouldn't KNOW everything that is going on. There are about 17,000 residents in Brentford ward any of whom can email, phone or meet with me. There are 35 listed buildings in the ward and about as many on the local list. And I'm not blaming anyone because whoever it was was acting in good faith, trying to protect our heritage. I'm delighted when people alert me to issues. It's just a fact that on one occasion I was misinformed, no big deal. There are a lot of issues for people round here and development is just one of them. People have problems with housing, benefits, poverty, crime and ASB, parking and parking tickets, schools, potholes, neighbours, noise, street cleaning, bins, events in parks and 100 other things and I endeavour to help them with all of these. If I thought people were a 'massive inconvenience' I wouldn't bother engaging with them on various social media, residents groups, doing a weekly blog, cycling regularly around the ward and happily talking to people who want to engage with me. I have been instrumental in the set up of a Friends of Waterman's Park Group and tried (and so far failed) to get a friends of Carville Hall Park and a Haverfield estate residents association going. We will never agree about regeneration, which is why I said I wouldn't comment on the other stuff in this thread. I live here, love the place and do my level best to improve it. The Brentford regeneration was already in train when I became a councillor so there's no point in me carping about it, even if I thought it was a bad thing, which I most certainly do not. I have plenty of beefs with developers and I'm not shy about putting them across, but I want this to succeed and with the right spirit, it will. |