It will be open to the public from 10.30 am until 4.30 pm on Saturday 22nd September as part of the national Open House event.
There will be a display of vintage buses as well as displays of the history of bus travel.
In addition there will be vintage bus tours to Stagecoach London’s newest bus station in West Ham, which will depart every 15 minutes.
On 27 July 2012, in a press release on the Council’s website, Portfolio Holder Cllr. Mark Rusling described Leyton Marketas ‘“a great opportunity for Waltham Forest to celebrate the Olympics”’, and claimed:
‘We have worked with the whole community – including local retailers – to get their support for this unique project.’
The final sentence of the press release was unequivocal:
‘Waltham Forest Council created the new food market through an innovative partnership with North London Business and Skateco UK’.
Three days later, Waltham Forest News made the same point:
‘Waltham Forest Council created the market to help local businesses capitalise on the extra visitors that will be flocking to the borough during the Games’ (WF News issue 71, 30 July 2012, p.7).
“The Chief Executive of North London Business has already resigned over this, so traders are right to expect some compensation.”
“Cllr Rusling was eager to take credit for the market before the Olympics and he and this Labour council must now take their share of the blame.
“Clearly at some point in this saga one part of the council didn’t know what another part was doing.
“I asked the council weeks ago whether they will be giving out compensation to the traders and they have refused, putting the blame squarely with North London Business.”
“As a board member of North London Business, Cllr Akram is also in a unique position to influence this decision. I think most local residents would expect him and Cllr Rusling to be considering their respective positions.”
“At the very least councillors and Cabinet members should be putting pressure on North London Business and Skateco UK Ltd to reimburse some or all of the money to the traders who were sold promises of customers that never arrived.”
When the Council and the ODA decided to implement the temporary Olympic Controlled Parking Zone, it was clearly stated that it would be withdrawn on the 9th September following the closure of the Paralympic Games.
The Council also stated that they would be undertaking a consultation with the residents to find out if, in the light of their experience during the Games, they wished to make the Controlled Parking Zone permanent.
The Lib Dems have now discovered that the Council has already published a Traffic Order allowing them to extend the temporary provision for 18 months. It also states that the Council will be considering ‘in due course’ whether the provisions of the experimental orders should be continued in force indefinitely by means of permanent Orders.
Liberal Democrats feel very strongly that there is no need for permanent parking restrictions in most of the roads in areas GO1 – GO10, as they do not have a history of parking problems.
All residents are urged to send in written objections to both the temporary 18 month extension and the permanent CPZ to the Council at:
Closing date for objections: 8th February 2013
The Council is negotiating turning Ive Farm Playing Field, which they have left derelict, into a campsite for the Olympics.
Oliver Close, Villiers Close and Ive Farm Close residents whose homes back onto the site have objections and organised a protest on the field.Leyton Ward Councillor Bob Sullivan said: “The council is becoming like a secret society. Council officers can’t even tell me what the plans are – the Guardian is the only way of finding out what’s happening.”
Leyton Ward Councillor Bob Sullivan said:
“The Council is becoming like a secret society. Council officers can’t even tell me what the plans are – the local Guardian is the only way of finding out what’s happening.”
The Council is negotiating turning Ive Farm Playing Field, which they have left derelict, into a campsite for the Olympics.
Is the Council keeping local residents in the dark about this, hoping that they can sneak it through without proper consultation?
Oliver Close, Villiers Close and Ive Farm Close residents whose homes back onto the site will certainly have objections particularly if, like the site in Walthamstow, it has live entertainment and bars serving alcohol.
The Liberal Democrat Group Leader and Leyton Ward Councillor Bob Sullivan says:
“There must be proper consultation with local residents, If the Council forces this through all proceeds should go towards bringing the playing field back into use.”
Cllr Mahmood Hussainof Walthamstow High Street Ward attended the opening ceremony of a new fire station built at the cost of 7.5 million pounds.
This is a new high tech fire station with three bays.
It will serve the borough and surrounding areas much more effectively and rapidly.
Cllr Mahmood Hussain met the officials including the Commander of the borough’s fire services.
The Fire Service are also planning to demolish Leytonstone’s ageing fire station, and build a modern facility to replace it. The artist impression below shows the new station to be built in Leytonstone High Road.
The report into Parking Provision across the Borough indicated that the Church Lane Car Park(in the shopping centre – next to Leytonstone Tube Station) was underused, and recommended that measures be taken to improve occupancy. It seemed strange, at the time, that this report should also include the provision of a multi-use games area (MUGA). Surely not a practical way of improving use by drivers!
FOCUS Team campaigner Mahmood Faiz believes that ideally a town centre car park should not necessarily be full every day, as it is a facility to encourage motorists to patronise the smaller local shops that do not have off-street parking of their own.
The photograph was taken on a normal weekday morning, and shows just two disabled bays vacant – hardly underused!
At a recent visit by Caroline Pidgeon, Leader of the Liberal Democrat Group on the London Assembly, the FOCUS Team took up concerns expressed following the tragic recent event on the Gainsborough Road footbridge, urging her to press Transport for London (TfL) for urgent action to make the bridge safer.
FOCUS also proposed that the height of the sides of the road bridge should be increased.
It is understood that Liberal Democrat councillors in Redbridge have also raised similar concerns about other bridges spanning the A12 as it runs through their area.
To date, TfL, responsible for the A12, has agreed to look at what measures may be possible on the bridges.
FOCUS will keep you in touch with developments.