Good news on pavements

Great news for residents of Belsize Park Gardens - the pavements have now been almost completely redone. This was so overdue. We'd been calling for repair work for more than a year. I know of one elderly woman who couldn't go out in her wheelchair because the pavements were so cracked up. The one person that would push her to the shops could no longer navigate the holes. The photo on the left should remind you just how bad it was.

Then there's the tremendous victory won against the company whose armoured van used to drive on to the pavement outside the HSBC in Belsize Grove. The vehicle was so heavy that it regularly broke up the paving stones and Camden council tax payers were left with the bill.
A Highways Dept officer and I went to see the manager of the HSBC to remonstrate. He gave us various contact details so we could fire off warning letters. But the real breakthrough came when someone from the Council caught the armoured van on camera and was then able to send a bill for the repair work. The same Council employee also installed some posts and a bench to prevent vehicles accessing the pavement again. All in all an impressive piece of work.