Redbridge accused of keeping Marks Gate residents in the dark about Billet Road site development.
According to the article in Barking & Dagenham Post Jon Cruddas MP wrote to the (Redbridge) authority’s housing chief after people in Coral Close and Uplands Road in Marks Gate raised concerns over a series of issues during work in nearby Billet Road, Aldborough Hatch.
The MP for Dagenham and Rainham has urged Redbridge Council not to leave neighbours “in the dark” over building work on green belt land.
As the local residents know, this is totally accurate. None of the LBBD residents were informed by Redbridge or the site owners that these works were to be carried out nor have they been told what and when to expect any further developments.
They have also not been told that this is contaminated land due to the unlicensed tip there in the 1970's and what precautions should have been taken while they dug up the land, none were.
Should any LBBD residents decide to look at Redbridge planning (why would they?) they would see the planning application for the hoarding fence but as the site is adjacent to LBBD residents in Billet Road, Rowan Way, Coral Close, Uplands Road, Hope Close and a short distance from Kallar Lodge Residential Care Home they should have all been informed.
Not only about the work on the site but also its removal from Green Belt by Redbridge despite the Mayor of London refusing this request.