When will Medway Council close Globe Lane to all traffic except buses and taxis?

The unbelievable must soon happen and they will actually close this any day now! Another nail in the coffin of Chatham. I think this will finally kill it off! R.I.P Chatham as a retail destination - God help the businesses trying to exist there!

Extract from The Local Government Ombudsman's Annual review for Medway Council - March 2009

This year our Advice Team dealt with 94 enquiries and complaints about your Council. Of these,
19 related to complaints which were deemed to be premature and so were referred back to the
Council for investigation. The categories that generated the most significant number of enquiries
and complaints were Education (28), Planning & Building Control (17) and Transport & Highways
(11). These categories also accounted for the majority of the 60 complaints forwarded to the
investigative team.

MORE new Additions to the list! - Medway Council - Top 100 (or more!) unpopular/incompetent decisions by successive Tory dominated councils.

Please add to my list (in no particular order):
1. Loss of City Status
2. Closure of Rochester Market to provide income generating car parking
3. CCTV Car(s)
4. Destruction of Aveling and Porter building to provide income generating car parking
5. Destruction of riverside wharves to provide thusfar non-existant development
6. Vandalism (tree felling etc) of The Paddock for "Dynamic" Bus Station
7. Vandalism of Riverside Gardens (tree felling etc) for "Dynamic" Bus Station
8. Vandalism of Great Lines (tree felling, destruction of wildlife habitat)
9. Changes to Black Lion Sports Centre (including renaming as Medway Park!)
10. Closure of college to sell off land opposite Rochester Airport for development
11. Relocation of Age Concern/Help the Aged from central Chatham to Hopewell Drive Business Estate, Luton
12. Failure to ensure the refurbishment of Pentagon toilets
13. Selling off parts of Watts Meadow for development
14. Selling off Copperfield Green Space for development
15. Failing to provide public parking at Gun Wharf Council offices
16. Publishing and distributing "Medway Matters" (a blatant piece of propaganda) using our money
17. Failing to consult effectively and/or failing to listen to consultation on almost every issue
18. The "Elephant in The Room" preventing any regeneration of Chatham is THE PENTAGON - demolish it!
19. Merger of Chatham South School & Medway Community College to form the vast Chatham Academy (added by Tracy)
20. Proposed closure of St John's C of E Infants (thanks to Tracy for this addition)
21. Proposed closure of Ridge Meadow Primary school (thanks again Tracy)

22.Axing of jobs - loss of park wardens at Maidstone Rd Sports Ground

the only sports ground in Chatham Central! (from Tracy)

23. Loss of loos at Maidstone Rd Sports Ground - Council voted to demolish [ & have demolished them ] & will not be re-instating. The nearest & only public loo in Chatham is actually the coin operated [20p portaloo] which is located far away down in the Town Centre behind Debenhams.

Unfortunately it is not accessible for the disabled & has no baby changing facilities either,

but it is available 24hrs !! (from Tracy) 

24. Queen St/Slicketts Hill car parks which are to be sold off & potentially developed into blocks of flats [ I think the Council refers to these blocks of flats as Podiums ] Wont they have a nice outlook ? - Iceland's car park / Tesco's / burst sofas in gardens, the graffiti behind them.'Rennaisance' loves the idea.... it'll  all be so terribly modern ? And right alongside the 'new Brook Boulevard' .. HA!!

But with limited parking / access / all those lifts etc... just think how hard it is going to

be trying to even move your furniture in.. let alone living there ?

Can you imagine the cost of the service charges ?

And they're not likely to be cheap..... I wonder just who can afford / will be attracted to live there ? (from Tracy.
25, Failure years ago to back the campaigners to save the Theatre Royal in Chatham. (thank you Bash Street Kid)

The Paddock Protest against Medway Council bus station, Great Lines etc

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