| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re::Re:Re:Now LABOUR Cllrs move against Ivybridge residents on Rugby Match Day parking | |
| Posted by: | Phil Andrews | |
| Date/Time: | 26/02/15 10:36:00 |
| We are all very well aware that Hounslow Council's "insurance" justification for shutting off a vital income stream for the residents' association and the Bridge Link Centre on Ivybridge is bogus, but it is worth trying to examine why it is doing this. To recap, Simon was confronted by two angry councillors a week or so ago who told him that they "run things now" and that any such project should have had their permission. Nothing, if I call Simon's account correctly, was mentioned about insurance. Now, a few days later, lo and behold, the Council Leader announces that the match day parking must stop due allegedly to the necessary insurance arrangements not being in place. It seems to me that on this occasion the poodle is taking the owner for a walk. I would like it to be explained to me whether other, non-rugby users of the Bridge Link Centre car park are insured when they park their cars, and if so why then does that insurance not cover rugby supporters doing the same? Conversely, if all users of the car park (including councillors attending their surgeries, whom it seems make the long drive from the Worple estate on the opposite side of the road) are doing so at their own risk and it is acceptable for them to do so, why is it that rugby supporters cannot leave their cars there on the same terms? It appears to me from this, and from other news emanating from Ivybridge, that our old friends are in the process of making one of their traditional power grabs on the estate and that this incident is merely a symptom of that strategy. But maybe I am wrong, in which case one of the people involved may wish to make a rare appearance on this public forum to enlighten us? |