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Abbey Wood
Neglect leaves tower block in tatters
Monday, 29 March 2010 - 15:25It is described as cell block H by local residents, and there is a feeling among the tenants that Labour have given up on them. One lady informed the Abbey Wood Action Team “People are always using drugs on the communal stairs, and the elderly residents feel afraid to leave their flats.” This place has danger written all over it and the sanitation issues are unbearable.
Labour abandons the Thames Gateway
Wednesday, 10 March 2010 - 11:06Labour has stopped participating in the Thames Gateway organisation which worked to improve employment, transport, housing and regeneration of those areas which border the Thames (including Greenwich and Woolwich).
Despite considering it ‘extremely successful’, the Labour run Council thinks our waterfront communities no longer need its support and funds.
New planning quango will fuel public disillusionment with politics
Saturday, 10 October 2009 - 00:00
As Gordon Brown’s controversial planning quango, the Infrastructure Planning Commission, opens its doors this month, Colin Bloom, the Conservative Parliamentary Candidate for Erith & Thamesmead, has warned it will fuel public disillusionment with politics. It could mean that even more unwanted developments like the Belvedere Incinerator, Belmarsh Prison and the Crossness Sewage Works could be dumped onto the area as a result.
Crime in Abbey Wood
Tuesday, 26 May 2009 - 01:00Abbey Wood is a beautiful, thriving and diverse community, but it has suffered from rising crime rates in the past year. Burglary is up 15% and a third more people have been arrested for carrying offensive weapons.
Local activist Richard Chandler says, “Abbey Wood can remain a vibrant community only if the
police and local residents are given the resources they need to tackle crime.”
Belmarsh Prison Expansion
Friday, 15 May 2009 - 01:00Belmarsh prison is to experience a large expansion, almost doubling its capacity for inmates. The decision has been taken with little public consultation in the surrounding areas. Currently, more than 40% of former
inmates move into the local communities of Abbey Wood, Plumstead and Thamesmead.
76% of these go on to re-offend. The expansion will almost certainly lead to a rise in crime. Conservative Parliamentary spokesman Colin Bloom says, “Belmarsh will soon be one of the biggest prisons in Europe,
Labour’s answer to dirty streets - £2m on managers
Tuesday, 5 May 2009 - 01:00At the end of 2008 Labour decided to spend another £2m on propping up the ailing street sweeping system. The Labour Cabinet heard boasts about vast improvements in the service from over a third of roads below acceptable standards for litter and detritus in 2006/07 to one fifth of all roads in 2007/08.