Walthamstow resident Nigel Pollitt says that Waltham Forest Council is planning unnecessary work in Chingford Road and across the borough
In the December issue the Echo reported on a major scheme of changes in Chingford Road. I’d like to understand how it is that millions continue to be spent on road projects in the borough.
Are these funded completely separately from the rest of the budget, including staff salaries?
Anyone who has been to the top of Walthamstow High Street in recent months will have been amazed to witness an extraordinary and presumably very costly long-term closure of road and pavement in order to install concrete cobbles and a wiggling road design.
Every weekday, a small number of workers toil slowly with measuring tape and angle grinders to hew tough blocking in to delicate patterns to complete this ornate and disruptive plan.
New planters will be sited on top of solid concrete, which will dry out in summer and prevent any young trees in them to reach maturity, as happened with the other planters (now removed) in the area.
It would be good to know that this well-meaning but unnecessary work isn’t drawing on general council funding.
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