This eyesore of a dangerous, flytipped and insecure site at 85 Albion Rd, St. Peters, Broadstairs needs to be sorted by TDC and quickly. It is close to the recent problems in Victoria Rd where houses are falling apart as a result of settling from chalk workings.
It does beg the question as to why the three Ezekiel Party Cllrs for the ward, Cllr Ken Gregory (Chair of Planning), Cllr Zita Wiltshire (Cabinet member) and Cllr Jason Savage have not spotted the problem and done something about it! Do they walk around their ward?
It has insecure fencing as the pictures below show and is accessible by children who can gain access and fall into the deep excavation in the site. Surely TDC , at the insistence of the 3 Ward Cllrs can make the owners clean up the site and put secure fencing around it?
This should be easily done as this site has just been the subject of a planning application. ( Please go and look at F/TH/09/0941 dated 22 Dec 2009). E-ssured Cars UK Ltd, would like to infill and cover the site in tarmac to make 25 car parking positions for car storage, with access through Livingstone Road. This has got to be good news, as the idea of housing on it might not be sensible given the problems in Victoria Rd. What Albion Motors next door think about this, will be interesting to see.
I am often accused of being cynical but I find it interesting that E-ssured highlight the fact that the site is presently a fly-tipped mess, in their application and thus locals would support any improvement!
Well, Ward Cllrs and TDC, over to you. You might like to make sure that E-ssured clean up this site and make it secure quickly before a child has an accident; particularly after neglecting this eyesore for so long and to do so before you are prepared to support their Planning Application.!
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Bertie,
This site has been like this for years and any complaints by locals are met with a limp excuse that the owner lives 'out of area'.
I complained at a PACT meeting some time ago about this awful eyesore and Cllr. David Lawson who represents the ward on the town council told me that it's difficult to do anything about it. He was the only one of the Five TDC councillors present and chose to wear his Broadstairs Town Council hat to answer the question raised.
Let's hope TDC gives the garage permission to expand and rid us of this disgusting area. As your photograph shows there is no fencing at the side although there was some originally before vandals threw it on the flytipped area.
A task, surely for the Anally retentive Party
The AIA
Interestingly it's not the garage next door to the site but one a bit further down the road that wants to build unless E-ssured Motors has taken over Albion Road Motors who are next door to the flytipped site.
It's a pity the St. Peter's councillors don't take a leaf out of the book of some of their colleagues who represent other wards, both Conservative and Labour, who have got involved in issues in their wards.I can't think of a single case where anyone of the St. Peter's lot has got involved to help the ward. Did they do anything about the lengthy road closure, the proposed double yellows in the High Street, the attempted sell-off of the Hopeville Avenue car park, saving the Old Forge site in a conservation area where permission has been given for building properties, clear-up the old Brown's Bakery site etc.,etc? If they have been active they've been very quiet about it and Cllr. Savage doesn't even reply to hand-delivered letters asking for support.
Thanks 13.10 for drawing my attention to my error in assuming Albion Road Motors were making the application. Have amended item accordingly.
TDC do try to keep the streets clean though on 2 bank holidays over the Christmas period I have seen the big road sweepers out with 2 people in, no doubt at double time and a a couple of extra days off, but collect the household rubbish, oh no that is something the residents want.
My recycling bin is absolutely full and rather than have the lid up and the stuff blowing around, I've taken a load to the tip and joined others doing the same but...
why should I have to? Were the recycling centres closed for a month? The KCC tip is operating normally with the huge containers coming and going.
Actually, if someone's seen the roads being swept please say where because it's not the case here in Braodstairs as the streets are filthy, and that's even before the current lot of ice and snow.
Why do the road sweepers have 2 people on them, all the non council ones you see operate with just 1 man. Why do they have them working on a bank holiday when we are in such a poor state financially. Thanet is like a tin pot dictatorship.
Collect rubbish? Not even if you pay! No green collection for January and TDC don't know whether they will resume in February so what are we paying for?
If anyone wishes to drive through St Peters at 6.20 am on a Wednesday morning, you will see the solitary road sweeper out in the pitch black in all weathers. Doubt if his pay reflects his committment.
Bit pointless sending him out the day before the binmen come as most of the village area doesn't have wheelie bins so they have household rubbish out every week, mostly in black binbags.
We have to live with this kind of surroundings almost every day of our lives in Dumpton area, suddenly St Peters has a taste of it and because that is a Tory ward something is done about it, but us in a Labour Ward have had to wait for over 2 years just to get one house sorted out, what does that say for this Council?
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