DESTRUCTION OF MAYLANDS FIELD, HAROLD
PARK, DEC 2002
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Update Feb 7th
After the area 'meeting' of last week, which felt like an old school council shut out, as though they didn't know Maylands was going to be a big issue (!), and as much as Councillor Kelly did talk to the large crowd outside, a few issues that weren't addressed need to be. Last week, at the Residents Meeting, Councillor Kelly said negotiations were going on with the owner, and for only a few days. Still the fence has not been moved back, nothing done about the illegal living accommodations at the car wash, none of the rubbish pushed against the fences moved back onto the farmers land, nothing done on the main road to remove the easy access. At the end of the week one of the residents saw the contractor knocking down a tree planted by Thames Chase, on land not owned by the farmer, and laughed as he did so. They have also taken out shrubs planted by Thames Chase. The environment department showed little interest when told of this occurrence.
Update January 2nd, 2002. If everyone could please inform us of any developments it would be appreciated
since we now have regular contact with the planning department and the
local press, the Recorder was supposed to be running an article this week
and next, and after the initial discouraging contact, have been very helpful,
as is also true of the Planning Department, but no article appeared this
week, will contact them on Monday. Update December the 27th, 2002. These photos were taken during the week ending December the 27th, 2002. So far they have bulldozed a road through from the car wash, open for a year, & which according to the council themselves is illegal, right across the field along by the river. This swathe is more than a road's width, and they have also felled all shrubs and trees between the 'road' and the river itself. The new land owner is not registered with the land registry office, his contacts on site refuse to divulge his name or a contact address. When speaking to the foreman he was very aggressive, and basically saying it's the owners land and he can do with it what he will. I also spoke with the workers in the car wash who were very frightened, fear like I've never seen here in this country outside of a fight situation. They were obviously immigrants, whether illegal or not I have no idea. There are two caravans already on the car wash, when I said to the foreman that people were just worried that an illegal caravan site was going to be set up, he said the owner was so pissed off with local people for asking questions that he might just start a caravan site to piss off the locals. They were also threatening to ban anyone using the field. Have not checked out public right of access yet. To complain contact the following councillors for this ward or the planning department at:
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