In South Kilburn we're used to Council neglect

 

 

Guest post by Pete Firmin

 

Living in an area which Brent Council and HS2 have decided to turn into a building site for decades, we are used to the concerns of residents being ignored, to the point where hardly anyone can be bothered to complain about building work taking place outside "permitted" hours, contractors vehicles being parked on the pavement for hours and parking spaces suddenly being taken over by portakabins, because nothing ever happens.

The latest show of how little Brent Council cares is shown by its attitude to flood damage. I previously wrote LINK about the difficulty of getting advice from Brent Council when flooding was happening. Water came back out of the drains with such force that it forced bricks out of the roadway. When Brent Council eventually looked at it late that evening they decided to do nothing. However, the next day they did send a Wates team to work on the area. They laid some of the bricks back, put some cement and sand over them and put plastic barriers around the affected areas. 

 

 

Problem? No-one has been back since. Over 3 weeks have passed, the barriers have fallen, the sand has been spread around, but no further work has been done. The piles of bricks in these photos are bricks which still need to be replaced in the roadway.

Councillors have been alerted, Brent Council has been chased, nothing. But then its only South Kilburn.

Pete Firmin, chair, Alpha, Gorefield and Canterbury TRA