Finally I got a chance to have a meeting with traffic engineers to discuss a ludicrous traffic planning scheme they have installed in King Charles Road, Surbiton. The scheme is full of chicanes placed at awkward places to the junctions. A real mess. They even managed to plant a new tree in a kerb build out, directly under the canopy of another mature tree. We will see where it leads and what the Council officers decide to do this time.
Another Council neighbourhood meeting this evening with very little on the agenda apart from some planning issues and concerns from residents about speeding cars down Villiers Road, Kingston.
The Government announced the grant awarded to Kingston for this year’s Council Tax. The Lib Dems have predicted a 9.5% rise in April and this grant does little to convince it will be much less unless the Lib Dems take some serious action. This all comes on a day when figures I have gained from the Council demonstrate that Kingston Council has increased the number of staff it employs by 22% since 2000. This is ridiculous. Some will be teachers and some will be grant given directly to fund the post, but no one could possible believe this accounts for all the increases. And whilst staff numbers rise we see the Lib Dems forcing means testing and increased charges for the most vulnerable elderly and disabled of Kingston. I heard from some of the protesters that even the Lib Dem MP refuses to argue their case for them, even though he apparently agrees with them!!
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