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HAS ERITH A FUTURE?By Stephen West We do not want more flats that will be snapped up by get rich quick block purchasers and filled to capacity with people who do not come from Bexley let alone Erith thus depriving local people from being... [Plus]
HAS ERITH A FUTURE?By Stephen West
We do not want more flats that
will be snapped up by get rich
quick block purchasers and
filled to capacity with people
who do not come from Bexley
let alone Erith thus depriving
local people from being able to
afford to live in the town they
grew up in or be offered affordable rented homes close to their
existing families or to have a
tree lined avenue flanked with
shops that cannot be let five
years after being built as the
rents are too high and the economy is in free fall and turning
our estate in to a mirror image
of two halves, divided by a road
that serves no useful purpose
other than to look pretty and
forcing twenty elderly residents
out of their homes at the same
time and reducing our car parking spaces to less than half of
what they are at present.
Erith simply cannot absorb hundreds of more
homes in the heart of the Town Centre as the
space is simply not there to achieve it without
creating even more high density blocks of flats,
with far fewer car parking spaces than there is
needed now, all we will become is a dormitory
town with anyone in real jobs parking wherever
they can, usually on our limited estate car park
or Morrisons and commuting by train to London.
Shops remain unlet
Five years on we still have half a dozen shop
units unlet in the town centre with no signs that
they will be let in the future.
Both Wises and
Woolworth’s now look like a boarded up ghost
town and may never reopen as anything of any
good and why should it, when they and Courts
before it suffered smashed windows week after
week along with all the glass in the bus shelters
or telephone boxes none of the vandalism was
ever picked up by the towns useless CCTV system.
Bexley Council could have provided new
retailers coming in to the town with a business
rate holiday until they were able to build up
their businesses, the owners of the Riverside
Shopping Centre have changed ownership and
it has taken five years since we complained when
the new centre opened about the wind tunnel
affect before anyone did anything about it.
Shoppers toilets!
The town is still without decent toilet facilities,
hardly anywhere to sit and no soft planting of
shrubs or pleasant piped music to enhance ones
shopping experience to Erith which was designed to allow car drivers to drive around in
ever decreasing circles until they found somewhere to park in order for them to rush in and
back out of the shops.
Unless you arrive by foot
I would hazard a guess that apart from having to
go to Morrisons most car drivers just give up
and drive to Bexleyheath or the car friendly
Bluewater shopping complex.
Safe haven
Look how hard we had to campaign to get Bexley Council to allow the town’s only cab firm to
set up a safe haven in its premises and be able to
have a change of business usage for the shop, we
all thought at the time that Bexley had lost sight
of reality.
Community Spirit dead
Erith has now been left without its traditional
town square to hold events in and the once popular market has been consigned to the history
books and to the minds of those over 40 who
can remember how in its heyday it was as popular as Woolwich or Dartford Markets which
still to this day are popular.
Health, education and playgrounds
The Health Centre cannot take on hundreds of
more patients and the only National Health
dentist has long since gone.
The provision of
nursery school places in the town will cause severe problems if more and more young families
are moved in to the area, we have more children
on our estate than I have ever known in the 15
years I have lived here with nowhere for them
to play and nothing in the future seems likely to
be provided by our landlords or Bexley Council,
whilst all they really want to do is increase the
ratable value of the town by cramming in more
and more homes regardless of the lack of public
amenities and services.
Riverside Festival
The hugely popular Riverside Festival enjoyed
by hundreds each year may be gone for good
thanks to a lack of enthusiastic volunteers to organise it, which was also affected in later years
by the PC Lobby and restrictions imposed by
Bexley Council, and the need to have expensive
and unaffordable Public Liability Insurance
cover.
Erith hardly a tourist destination
With only two out of every three trains stopping
between Dartford and Abbey Wood stations in
either direction and our Riverside Gardens
under developed as a major link between the
town and the river with no boat services up or
down river for commuters to use and tourists to
have use off, is it any wonder that our town is
hardly on the tourists list of places to visit.
Only
local people in our opinion come to Erith as it
does not have the room or capacity to grow in
any direction other than upwards everyone else
goes to Bexley, Bexleyheath, Dartford, Bluewater, Greenwich, Northumberland Heath and
Crayford for their shopping and other needs.
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