To answer both Roy Nasse and Pete Lawrence's letters of January 29 relating to wheelie bins (who both come from Mitcham) please forgive us if your words of comfort regarding a period of consultation is met with a hollow laugh in our part of Wimbledon.
We have experienced to our cost the results of these so-called consultations with the council each time we pass our local park/recreation ground.
Diggers are now in the process of digging up one third of this park to make way for an extension to the local Dundonald Primary School. And, just to hammer home their victory over the local protest group the council went to court in order to overturn a 100+ year old covenant from the John Innes Society to the local people of this area. They now have free rein to do what they want.
So 'consultation' is something I doubt very much the council knows the meaning of. What are the people who live in terraced housing, or small cottages supposed to do with these wheelie bins when they arrive? Where are they going to be parked. Are we supposed to wheel them through the house. Also, is everybody going to be able to turn these wheelie bins over in order to keep their interiors washed and clean.
P. Newman
Wimbledon
SW20
- Send your letters to: letters@wimbledonguardian.co.uk
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