Topic: Council

About 75p a day at the moment. Using my specially purchased laminator, I produced some rather fetching posters to hang around the offending crossings to solicit local opinion (actually, to get fellow protesters involved, which when you think about it is a whole different thing) It took me a little while to master how to tie them around the poles at the crossing (It's a real science.

The question, I suppose, is who is ultimately responsible for keeping the streets free of traffic outside the local Tesco. In the old Olivers days, there was never the constant presence of cars there is today. The shop was very local, and almost everyone who used it walked to it. Today, the demographic is quite different.

Thanks for all the texts - Very useful in collating information. Here's this week's email to the council: Dear Mr Potter I, like you, have better things to be getting on with So far this week, I have been past Tesco only three times between 8.40, and 9.30 - On each day, there has been some sort of delivery - I have left you two voice mails, and we spoke once.

Step one of the new loading bay was unveiled today - A key part of the Council's strategy is to ensure that the new loading bay is kept clear of non-goods vehicles so that when the juggernauts turn up, at least they are in the new loading bay, so the sign says "Goods vehicles only" My response was that all you will do is create a bigger car park for customers.

On my return from my hols, I find this on my e-mail – I wonder what happened? From:Cllr Ben Khosa [mailto:...] Sent: 14 August 2006 09:56 To: residents; simon chapman Cc: ....

I have been a bit busy last few months, and haven’t had the time to update the blog as much as I would have wished – However, on those rare occasions I was out in the hours of daylight, and passed Tesco, I took a few picture – This is nothing like the extent of it, but if you want to see more, there is plenty. Pictures of lorries are there generally if they are in the “restricted” loading times (such as 8.00-9.

A few months have passed. Has the situation got any better? No, not really. The promised review of the loading bay by the Council has failed to materialise, so it seems we are stuck with near permanent congestion outside the Tesco store in St Margarets.

Interesting loading bay discovery The loading bay is the exact size of Tesco's largest lorry. If a lorry parks totally in the loading bay, the unloading has to take place in the bus stop! To get round this, Tesco is parking almost to the corner of Broadway Avenue to give them room to unload in the loading bay - But in doing so, 5 or 6 feet of the lorry is outside the loading bay, and totally obscuring the view crossing the road Well done Richmond...

Step one of the new loading bay was unveiled today - A key part of the Council's strategy is to ensure that the new loading bay is kept clear of non-goods vehicles so that when the juggernauts turn up, at least they are in the new loading bay, so the sign says "Goods vehicles only" My response was that all you will do is create a bigger car park for customers.