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Grenfell Tower and a lesson for us

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I would like to extend condolences to the victims of the fire in Grenfell Tower and hope that some positive change will come about. The health and safety of people living on council estates is more important then purely aesthetic measures designed to put money in the hands of greedy subcontractors.  Spraying dangerous chemicals on wildflowers from quad bikes falls into this category.  As does the cutting down of trees and the building of car parks instead. The people of St  Matthews want a greener and cleaner environment. Unfortunately our tenants association which has no public forum has failed to represent the people of the estate in this matter. Our tenants association has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on unregulated car parking at the expense of our small number of trees. They haven't even had planning permission to do this.  I personally like to see weeds and wildflowers growing on the concrete and the aesthetic taste that wants us to live in an arch...
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Contact Project to close on the St Matthews?

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It is with great sadness that I hear the Contact Project is closing here on the St Matthews. Leicester City Council takes £6 million off of this estate annually in rent and Council Tax. The average spend on property maintenance is less the £50 per unit. 2500 x 50 = £1.25 million. Our tenants association have been useless, preferring to cut down trees and build polluting car parks instead. I presume the cost of the car parks, which by the way don't appear to have any planning permission, was astronomical. Obviously we should have spent the money on keeping the Contact Project going instead. On a personal note my son has and is using the Contact Project weekly and it has helped him greatly to develop as a young man. It really is time to see where the money goes. The figures the Council produces are aggregated for the whole of the city, a technique which hides the spending instead of shedding light on it. Hey LCC! we all have computers, and spreadsheets, and can handle looking...
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Today on Remembrance Day 11th November 2019, St. Matthews Estate is having almost every bush and small tree removed under a 'tidy-up blitz'. We are being subject to this 'blitz' over the next six weeks, and I dread to think how bad things will be by then.  St Matthews lies between 3 major roads and has a problem specifically identified in the LCC AQAP (Air Quality Action Plan) as having high levels of NO2 from this traffic.  This Mayor's initiative has been undertaken with no local consultation and has just been imposed on us by the same people who have been building illegal car parking (no existing planning permission for Kashmir Rd) on the estate. I wonder if there is some collusion between the contractors and the Mayors office. Spending £330,000 on 24 spaces seems to have been a way of funneling money to the Council Highways dept. (and it was only 1 of 3 car parks) Surely it cant cost over £10,000 per space to convert what was already a temporary car park in...
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