The 2 new community notice boards, funded from last years Community Council funding pot, have now been erected. They are located at the junction of Grove Road and High Road (behind the ‘Leaf Man’ statue) and at the junction of Fairlop and Grove Green Roads. Please let us know if you wish to put something in either or both of the notice boards; for example promotion of community events or meetings. Marie holds a key for the Fairlop Road notice board and Clyde a key for the Grove Road one. The town centre manager also has keys.
Councillors demand action on aircraft noise
Along with many local residents your Leytonstone Labour councillors Clyde Loakes, Jenny Gray and Marie Pye are very concerned about the increased aircraft noise over parts of Leytonstone.
At our request the council undertook an investigation to identify the main causes of this.
These appear to be:
London City Airport recently changed the direction of some of their flights particularly from runway 28, and of course many of these flights are jets.
Further changes were made to London City Airport as a result of planning application for extra flights submitted to the London Borough of Newham. This application was not referred to Waltham Forest Council.
Air traffic control at Heathrow airport has been redirecting a very high number of planes due to weather conditions during the summer.
As local councillors we are determined that the voice of Leytonstone is heard loud and clear about these issues.
We have ensured that the council will respond to the current BAA Heathrow consultation programme Noise Action Plan.
The council's noise level assessment team will be prioritising checks to see whether residents are eligible for the London City Airport (LCA) Sound Insulation Grant Scheme.
Waltham Forest Council will also be demanding a place round the table at the the London City Airport Consultation Committee which at the moment is only open to Barking & Dagenham, Bexley, Greenwich, and Tower Hamlets.
As local councillors we will be contacting the London Borough of Newham to express our concern at their agreement to increased flights from City Airport.
We will also be involved in an upcoming consultation by the National Air Traffic Service which will focus on flights coming over our area.
Up Your Street
Your local councillors spend several hours each week knocking on doors across Leytonstone. We do this to check whether residents have any issues or concerns that they want us or the Council to sort out. This happens every week of every year, not just at election times. Over the last few months they have been systematically working their way across Upper Leytonstone and the roads off the High Road.
The majority of local residents clearly like living in Leytonstone but obviously lots of different issues get raised and the majority of these have been addressed. These include problems with fly tipping, street cleaning, rubbish in front gardens and concerns about empty or derelict properties. Following on from this some roads have been given extra street cleaning (for example Colworth Road), fly tipping has been removed (including in one case the entire contents of a house) and councillors are currently talking to the council about how they can deal with the increase in dog mess.
Councillor Jenny Gray said "It's fantastic talking to local residents on their doorstep. But we don't want people to wait until we knock to tell us if they have any issues. Just give us a ring, drop us an e-mail or come along to our surgery."
3 Footbridges Too Far
Transport for London have agreed to undertake major works not only to the footbridge near the tube in Leytonstone but to the other two footbridges between Leytonstone and Leyton. We are currently waiting for final versions of these plans. Work should be starting in the spring.
We’d like to thank all residents who have so far contributed and added their voices to this campaign to significantly improve the footbridge in Leytonstone. You can check out our short film about the footbridge on youtube-
