Residents on Costead Manor Road and Greenshaw have contacted the Brentwood North Lib Dem Team concerning the frequency of their 71 Bus Service. The service links Costead Manor Road with Brentwood High Street and Stondon Massey. Upon examination of the timetable, Brentwood North candidate Ross Carter and Cllr Reg Straw found that not all of the journeys serve the estate. The Lib Dem Petition to call for increased journeys has attracted strong support.
Liberal Democrat Borough councillors in Pilgrims Hatch ward were celebrating the news this week that action was going to be taken at last to improve the dangerous Sandpit Lane/Ongar Road junction.
Cllr Karen Chilvers is delighted to report that Vehicle Activated signs, as requested by her at the November Environment Panel, will soon be installed in London Road.
Brentwood's Liberal Democrat group has reacted with sadness and disappointment at the Conservative-run Borough Council's decision to approve plans for the demolition and re-building of Winifred Dell House, the elderly care home in Warley. This decision will mean that elderly residents may have to vacate the home.
At the recent budget setting meeting the arrogant Tories railroaded through their four per cent increase in your Borough Council tax and then poured scorn on anyone attempting to question where residents money was being spent or offer an alternative budget.
Cllr Derek Hardy, former Mayor of Brentwood, has announced he is to stand down from active politics after serving for 17 years as ward councillor for Brizes and Doddinghurst. Derek also served as county councillor for 12 years and parish councillor for 25 years.