Western Riverside

It is good news to hear that the gas tower on Western Riverside has been finally decommissioned so no longer holds any gas.

It is planned over the next few months for the gas tower to be taken down and the contamination from the land removed.

This latest new means that the restrictions on building in this area can be lifted allowing for the further development of housing on Western Riverside.

This can't be right

Residents in Lymore Avenue have become very upset at local builder Flower & Hayes who have erected a solid wooden fence in front of their Kitchen windows.

The residents tell me that the original planning permission for new homes that were built on the former Reads yard gave permission for a hand rail and not a fence and I have had this confirmed by the councils planning department.

Contact with the developer by both myself and local residents have met with a blank rejection and they do not seem interested in residents who have enjoyed a right of light for many years. The Council have told us that they are unable to force Flower & Hayes to remove the fence.

I feel that the residents have been treated very badly and would hope that the developer of the new homes and would see some common sense and remove the fence that they have erected and put in the original hand rail that the existing residents thought was going to happen.