Girton Road Car Park

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14BradfordRoad
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

Post by 14BradfordRoad »

parklife wrote:so basically they have moved half mile down road and are about to trash another part of sydenham ?
Probably Parklife.. But would be more than happy to be proven wrong!
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Eagle, Wholly sympathise with view to recovering cost of clean up, etc. It would probably end up costing
more to recover these costs than Lewisham Borough would gain from any efforts. LB would have to act
(as they already have) within the Law, the travellers probably won't.. No real justice here!
CaptainCarCrash
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

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If I was an itinerant vagabond tarmac drive laying/thief/rubbish dumping/anti-social wrongen I'd expect to upset the neighbourhood especially if I'd just commandeered a car park for the best part of a month, caused a load of badness for the locals by starting huge fires and pumping out the blarney stone kid's latest hit on a 2kw pa system which was probably robbed from a fairground and left the place looking like a fly-tippers paradise I'd start moaning about victimisation especially if people started demanding that the cops escort our clan out of the borough, I'd make the place my home for the next 10 years.
stone-penge
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

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CaptainCarCrash wrote:the blarney stone kid's latest hit...
Sounds intriguing. Do you know if this is available on iTunes?
CaptainCarCrash
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

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stone-penge wrote:
CaptainCarCrash wrote:the blarney stone kid's latest hit...
Sounds intriguing. Do you know if this is available on iTunes?
I wouldn't know.
parklife
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

Post by parklife »

Went to see the carpark last night.

Have never seen anything like it. Absolutely shocking

There are some photos of it on news shopper website

Will cost thousands to clear it all up
CaptainCarCrash
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

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Nice......
Eagle
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

Post by Eagle »

Any house owner would be fined , quite right;y , by the council.


Seems one rule for law abiding citizens and another rule for .......................
Annie.
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

Post by Annie. »

They give their race a bad name, not fair on any decent traveller.

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Rachael
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

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Well said, Annie. Many travellers are not like this at all. It's a shame.

Meanwhile, I am slightly agog at how much rubbish they generated in - what, two weeks?
CaptainCarCrash
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

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Rachael wrote:Well said, Annie. Many travellers are not like this at all. It's a shame.

Meanwhile, I am slightly agog at how much rubbish they generated in - what, two weeks?
It is a shame, but what can you do?

We had a problem with travelers at a place I worked at years ago, one of the little ones did a no2 right outside the front door, most people moaned and were a bit nasty about it but I thought it was funny :lol: the firm got them evicted and when they left they didn't take their rubbish with them either which wasn't surprising.
Eagle
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

Post by Eagle »

Why did they not use recycling bins like everybody else.
claharper
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

Post by claharper »

Eagle, isn't the more obvious question: why do they not use toilets like everyone else? :)

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Lewisham Comms
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

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Obviously we're very pleased the travellers have now moved on. We are currently in the process of cleaning up the car park which will take longer than we had hoped because there are many tonnes of debris. We will also need to repair the damage done to the tarmac and the height and width barriers. Once the clean up is complete we intend to install concrete sleepers to try to prevent further trespassers. Unfortunately, we are restricted in what we can do because the car park is used by delivery vehicles for local businesses. However, we are continuing to look at what further measures we can take to prevent any reoccurence. The Council will need to cover the cost of both the clean up and the repairs which is not insignificant. We are giving consideration to reclaiming costs from the travellers but this may not be realistic.
marymck
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

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Please can you explain what concrete sleepers are and where they'll be installed?

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Eagle
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

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Lewisham Comm

Wht may it not be realistic. If you send The Baliffs in I am sure they will find many valuables.
Lewisham Comms
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

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Unfortunately, the clean up is taking longer than we originally hoped - there is a lot of it. However, as soon as this has been completed, the concrete sleepers will be fixed into place. These are long, thick, heavy blocks of concrete that will be positioned at the entrance to the lower car park to prevent entry.
marymck
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

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Lewisham Comms wrote:Unfortunately, the clean up is taking longer than we originally hoped - there is a lot of it. However, as soon as this has been completed, the concrete sleepers will be fixed into place. These are long, thick, heavy blocks of concrete that will be positioned at the entrance to the lower car park to prevent entry.
Whoa!! Hold that! What about those of us law abiding council tax payers who use the lower car park? What are we supposed to to? Levitate?

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14BradfordRoad
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

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marymck wrote:
Lewisham Comms wrote:Unfortunately, the clean up is taking longer than we originally hoped - there is a lot of it. However, as soon as this has been completed, the concrete sleepers will be fixed into place. These are long, thick, heavy blocks of concrete that will be positioned at the entrance to the lower car park to prevent entry.
Whoa!! Hold that! What about those of us law abiding council tax payers who use the lower car park? What are we supposed to to? Levitate?

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Hopefully concrete blocks that will prevent wide caravans but not cars Mary..
Lewisham Comms
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

Post by Lewisham Comms »

We will of course ensure the concrete sleepers are strategically placed. Incidentally, you may be interested to know the clean up is now complete and we removed 67 tonnes of waste.
chrisj1948
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Re: Girton Road Car Park

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Lewisham Comms wrote: Incidentally, you may be interested to know the clean up is now complete and we removed 67 tonnes of waste.
... which implies that the travellers must have been an industrious bunch. One regrets that such industry was not directed to a more acceptable end.

Regards
Chris
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