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It’s 8 o’clock. I’m in a bit of a rush. I need to meet with a Borough Enforcement Officer about a persistent rubbish dump in Leadbury Road. The residents have been onto me about this recently. They are saying it’s not getting any better and it’s affecting their quality of life and unfortunately this is quite a normal issue.
Before we start, can I just take the opportunity of congratulating Councillor Moylan on his election as the Chairman of ALG Transport Environment Committee unopposed.
Yeah I know, you’ve go the bags, you’ve got that, you know, it’s not good.
There’s a lot of enthusiasm and this Borough worked very hard to get the present structures.
I really think this needs reporting back again, now, because we’re obviously not making an impact here.
Disappoint in his relationship.
I was elected in May 1994. I was a community activist prior to that and currently I’m the leader of the opposition group on the council. The lady who is most exercised about this is at 98. Is it still having a disturbing effect on your sleep.
The situation is worse than ever, particularly as it’s the summer and you can’t have your windows open at night. I’ve got a 15 month old baby upstairs and I can’t open any of her windows, I’ve got to have a fan on just to take away the sound of the noise of the buses. You know, they probably thought that it wouldn’t cause too much disruption but it really has. It’s unbelievable. It’s a claustrophobic feeling. It’s just not a good quality of life in this road at the moment.
And you’re aware that we’re presenting a petition on this to council tonight?
Yes, let’s see how it goes.
Okay great. Thanks very much. Bye.
I just feel very, very sorry for her and I will strive to do all I can to get the decision reversed.
We’re going now down to the Duke of York Square for the event with the Chelsea Pensioners.
The in-pensioners and The Royal Hospital have been with us for 315 years so we thought it was about time that we honoured them for not only the service of this generation of pensioners and all the years they gave in the army but also their predecessors and indeed those that will follow on.
If this was a Labour do it would probably be snowing.
It went very well. I think there were over 100 pensioners parading plus local residents and visitors in the Kings Road and everybody cheering and applauding and lots of school children waving flags and holding balloons. Yes, it was a wonderful occasion.
Certainly 20 years ago I didn’t think I’d become Leader of the Council one day, but I quickly found that I enjoyed it and it was a satisfying, rewarding thing to do, full of potential and being involved in the local community and actually being able to change quite effectively.
It’s a very amazingly varied and stimulating group of residents there and they are inevitably demanding and they expect results and they expect answers and they hold us to account.
Hello, I’m Merrick Cockell, Councillor for Kensington and Chelsea.
The West Chelsea initiative which the Leader of the Council established is putting pump driving money to try and improve the area so that we hope that by doing works on this, planting trees, making it a softer landscape, that more people will want to come and use it as a destination of choice. You haven’t put electric cables under here, have you? Foot on the shovel, what, real big job, yeah?
You often hear of a complaint that there’s not very much talent in local government or that there only a very narrow group of people get involved in it. That’s not true. We don’t have a shortage of talent; in fact, frankly the cabinet in Kensington and Chelsea I think most Prime Ministers would be very happy to have.
Throughout the 45 members in my group, there is an enormous wealth of talent and hopefully, over a period, it is all being used to the best advantage of local residents.
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