A number of areas in Church End now have their own local Neighbourhood Watches. These groups work togetherwith the police to keep our homes and lives secure. A spate of burglaries locally underlines the need to keep our homes safe. The police Safe Neighbourhood Team can provide advice on making houses more secure. Neighbourhood Watches […]

Residents around the Horn Lane area have missed the local store since it closed after a fire. After months of rumours we have confirmed that the owner has submitted plans to the Council to extend the roof area with a dormer extension. The application should be dealt with this month. Repairs and building work can then be […]

Churchfields park is the largest Council space in the Church End area. It is much valued and appreciated, particularly now with the children’s play area. BUT the underground streams which run down from Woodford New Road area to the Roding turn it into a muddy bog land after wet weather. The park is operated by Vision, a […]

Residents know that the wretched RINGO machines are regularly out of order. When calls are made time is often lost because you cannot get through. Church End’s Councillors regularly get contacted by motorists caught up in the system. Sometimes we can help get Parking Notices cancelled.   But the Council should keep their machines in order, and […]

Vision, who run our libraries for the Council, are thinking about making major changes to Woodford and South Woodford Libraries. We think residents need to know what is going on now, before official minds harden and ‘proposals’ become firm plans.  South Woodford Library Vision want to create a fitness gym with equipment in the children’s […]

The Lib Dem Focus Team’s campaign to cut street drinking and associated Anti Social Behaviour continues. We want to cut the easy supply of high alcohol drink sold in our area. Such supplies of cheap drink cause the problems. The Council’s Anti Social Behaviour teams and the Police teams have stepped up their investigations. Shops selling alcoholic […]

  The Roses:  A number of residents have asked for a parking scheme so Church End Councillors have got Highways officers to hold a formal consultation with residents in these flats. Priory Close: We are checking with residents to see if they want a Residents Parking scheme for their flats. Grove Road: Residents in Grove Road were […]

At the last Area 2 Committee Highways officers presented ideas for groups of roads in the South Woodford area to be considered for this reduced speed limit. We have previously had complaints about traffic speed in Cleveland Road where vehicles cut through to avoid hold ups on the High Road. So we have asked the Council’s […]

The Council is proposing to ban pavement parking in every street in the borough, except in roads where residents have asked for it to be allowed and the Council have formally agreed. Unless Chelmsford Road residents ask for pavement parking to be allowed to continue it will be banned altogether when the new regulations come […]

  Hugh Cleaver (right, at South Woodford Tube station) says thank you to all the residents who contacted him about the Central Line and its problems. He has take up a number of your suggestions, ideas and complaints. These will be followed up with our Lib Dem Councillors on the GLA, and with London Underground. […]