Residents Association Councillor for Havering Park Ward, Andrew Mann has hit out at Travellers who have invaded Bedfords Park in Broxhill Road, Havering-atte-Bower turning it into no go zone area for locals and left it looking like a scrap yard.
Cllr Mann said “I have been inundated by residents complaining about the situation in the Park, I came home from a week’s family holiday on Friday and moved straight away to get Council Officers to deal with this terrible situation”
It’s the first time in many years that Travellers have invaded the Park; previously they almost destroyed Havering Country Park back in the late 90’s, they were there for week and the local Councillors took weeks to resolve the situation. It’s the destruction that they leave behind which is normally worse than them actually being there.
Cllr Mann said “I have been inundated by residents complaining about the situation in the Park, I came home from a week’s family holiday on Friday and moved straight away to get Council Officers to deal with this terrible situation”
It’s the first time in many years that Travellers have invaded the Park; previously they almost destroyed Havering Country Park back in the late 90’s, they were there for week and the local Councillors took weeks to resolve the situation. It’s the destruction that they leave behind which is normally worse than them actually being there.
Cllr Mann said “In a week when we should be celebrating Bedfords Park being awarded a “Green Flag” (see story below) by the Government for being an example of one of the best parks in the Country, we wake up to this nightmare on our doorstep”
“I am also disappointed that my Tory colleagues, rather than addressing the issues to hand, use it to produce a leaflet blaming the whole situation on everyone apart from themselves, but it is the Tories who in fact actually run the Council, or had they forgotten that, it is after all a Conservative controlled Council”
It is suggested in their leaflet that I failed to act when asked by residents, but that is a lie, as I have said, I arrived home from holiday on Friday and moved straight away to deal with the situation, I have written to the Executive Director of Public Realm at Havering Council (the person responsible in the Town Hall) to use all of the resources that her department has to deal with this problem and to call on the assistance of the Police and legal department to do so.
Bedfords Park has been neglected by the two local Conservative Councillors since the local elections in 2006. The park has only moved forward with the hard work of the “Friends Group” and the Parks department and Essex Wildlife Trust.
To back up this claim, I would ask you to write to Cllr Binion and ask her how many times she has attended a meeting of the “Essex Wildlife Trust – Bedfords Park Management Committee”, which is the committee that I sat on for almost four years, but the Tories voted me off using the majority in the Town Hall. In the first 12 months, she failed to attend one single meeting !
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