- The retention of Sundridge Park Village car park, off Plaistow Lane, as a FREE car park, despite the Council’s intentions to install charges in 2024, which would have meant drivers parked in the surrounding streets which have unrestricted parking, causing difficulties for residents.
- Successfully negotiating with the Council for the eventual re-siting of the ward’s recycling banks into Sundridge Park Village car park, after Southeastern insisted the banks were removed from beside Sundridge Park railway station, where they had sat on the slip road Southeastern manage for the landowners, Network Rail.
- Encouraging Bromley Council to seek Transport for London funding for safer pedestrian crossing points at Plaistow Green roundabout. With this successfully achieved it is progressing through the design stage.
- Successfully lobbying the Council’s Highways department for the re-surfacing of College Road when it had not initially been added to the Council’s annual road maintenance programme. The resurfacing is now completed.
- Liaising with the Plaistow Safer Neighbourhood Police Team regarding local crime and anti-social behaviour and attending the regular Safer Neighbourhood Panel meetings.
- Securing a Community Impact Day in Shaftesbury Park in 2025 after I suggested it to the Council. This wonderful community event was attended by the Met Police, Met Police Cadets, London Fire Brigade, Clarion Housing, Bromley’s Community Safety Team and over one hundred local residents.
- Liaising with the Council and Parish Primary School regarding parents’ concerns on road safety on London Lane and Park Avenue. I am very pleased Park Avenue has also been submitted to Transport for London for funding for a study of pedestrian movements, particularly outside the school gate. I will continue to lobby for better road safety at the school’s London Lane main entrance.
- I found £13,500 of S106 monies in a planning approval (S106 was the provision for off-site playground facilities by the developer of a large new housing development in the ward) and asked the Council to add that money to the Shaftesbury Park Playground and Pond improvements fund. With Council officers’ help £75,000 was successfully granted by the Veolia Environmental Trust and once both these amounts were added to the £23,000 achieved by Burnt Ash Primary School’s application to Bromley’s Jubilee Parks Fund (with a little of these monies used to match fund the Veolia grant) we now have £104,000 to spend on Shaftesbury Park Playground and Pond. Works have already started on the Pond, with the other work to follow during 2026.
- Touring the Milk Street and New Street Hill areas with the Plaistow Safer Neighbourhood Team and the Met Cadets in early March, to ask residents to sign up for the Met’s new online platform MetEngage, which provides local policing information and alerts.
- I arranged for the installation of double yellow lines alongside the Lidl loading bay on Brindley Way, so the emergency services could access the neighbouring properties without obstruction when the Lidl delivery lorries are unloading.
- I arranged for Bromley’s Assistant Director of Traffic to visit Scotts Road with me when residents complained of parking pressures on this tight cul de sac. With new parking bay markings we have now increased the number of bays for parking permit holders.
- Supporting the Links Estate Residents’ Association (LERA) and touring the public trees on the estate with the LERA Tree Officer to produce a Tree Audit paper for the Council’s Arboriculture Department, which showed which trees and tree pits needed maintenance. I was delighted when the 60+ public trees on Ridgeway Drive, also within the LERA estate, were pollarded in 2026, after I had championed their need for maintenance.
