The HS2 project and its impact on South Kilburn residents is a sensitive issue to say the least and good communication from the project essential.
However, residents were perplexted to received the communication below. It refers residents to the HS2 Ealing page rather than Brent but the link actuall leads to the Camden page.
Dear Residents
HS2 Works: Utility drainage surveys on Rupert Road, Denmark Road and residential compounds
We recently wrote to you regarding drainage surveys in your local area. We would like to inform you that we will be carrying out further surveys on Rupert Road, Denmark Road and in the grounds of Walbrook Court and Winterleys residential properties. These surveys will help us to understand the condition of the drainage system in the area and how best to protect it during construction of the railway. We will investigate the condition of the sewer system using a camera and may need to flush the system if any blockages are found. Your utility services will not be affected during these works.
You can find out more about the works from our recent notification.
For more information about HS2 in Ealing, please see the Ealing page of our website.
If you have a question about HS2 or our works, please contact our HS2 Helpdesk team on 08081 434 434 or email hs2enquiries@hs2.org.uk.
Yours sincerely,
HS2 Community Engagement team
Contact our Helpdesk team all day, every day of the year by:
Freephone: 08081 434 434 | Minicom: 08081 456 472 | Email: HS2Enquiries@hs2.org.uk
To keep up to date with what is happening in your local area, visit: www.hs2inyourarea.co.uk
South Kilburn resident Pete Firmin adds November 2nd 2021:
And so it continues - leaflet (photo below) arrives today. "Update meeting for residents near our Canterbury Works site". Okay, that's South Kilburn. But then at the online meeting we will "find out more about SCSJV's current and upcoming works at the Atlas Road site". I've no idea what SCSJV stands for, but I do know that Atlas Road is at Old Oak Common, nowhere near the Canterbury Works site. Confusing is an understatement.
EDITOR'S COMMENT: With such terrific in-depth geographical expertise at HS2 Ltd the line may well end up in Ipswich.
Not the first such instance. A couple of weeks ago HS2 sent an email to some in South Kilburn inviting them to book for one to one to one sessions with their community people for Brent and Camden. However clicking on the link took you to the page for booking sessions for people in Harrow and Northolt. I sent an email pointing this out and got a response after the sessions had been and gone acknowledging my email. So much for their much vaunted community engagement.
ReplyDeleteAnd so it continues - leaflet (photo) arrives to days. "Update meeting for residents near our Canterbury Works site". Okay, that's South Kilburn. But then at the online meeting we will "find out more about SCSJV's current and upcoming works at the Atlas Road site". I've no idea what SCSJV stands for, but I do know that Atlas Road is at Old Oak Common, nowhere near the Canterbury Works site. Confusing is an understatement.
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ReplyDeleteI attended an HS2 community engagement consultation at Granville Centre early covid pandemic and pointed out then that HS2 should invest in planting and in upgrading the existing public owned natural green flood defences system of South Kilburn many rivers floodplain? It got a kind of 'yes' or was it a 'blah, blah, blah' response at that time. No word since.
HS2 must be extremely concerned having witnessed in July 2021 (they are on site) just what South Kilburn many sewage rivers are like when they all emerge over ground, this particularly while HS2 are constructing the long tunnel and South Kilburn tunnel vent emergency escape building. However once completed, tanked and submarine sealed with a periscope-like fully tanked vent emergency escape building. Then HS2 will be 100% relaxed and indifferent to what happens 'outside' and to Brent's Local Plan South Kilburn tall building zone building-up and sinking of a clearly crumbling, failed, overburdened local Victorian rivers sewage and drainage system hidden below ground.
An aware HS2 should invest in South Kilburns public owned flood defence parks future resilience with increased planting and design improvements for safe natural ponding of flood waters.
As for an aware Brent Master Developer with its tall building zone in absolutely the wrong place BIG IDEA? Just how does Brent intend to rivers sewage drainage sink understand, invest and best protect South Kilburn homes old and recent built in resilience terms from its highly lucrative new tall building zone (all to be all tanked and submarine like HS2 – so no problem there) being policy forced?