Headlines - July 2006
Once again Bexley has secured five Green Flags for its first class parks and open spaces. The flags are awarded to the country's best green spaces, and this year's success puts Bexley in the top five London boroughs for the prestigious 2006 Green Flag Awards.
A new schedule of work has been put together for the A206 Thames Road project. The new timetable will see improvements to the A206 Thames Road continue as planned and largely completed by June 2007.
On Saturday 29 July, Welling will host a double celebration with an event to commemorate the unveiling of a plaque on Welling Cannon's new wooden gun carriage and the formal reopening of the refurbished Welling library.
Bexley Council has stepped up its campaign to halt plans for Europe's largest
waste incinerator on the Thames at Belvedere.
The courts have backed a Council decision to revoke an Erith store's licence to sell alcohol.
Today (17 July) work started in Welling to remove the bus lane that has run through the town centre since 1999.
Nearly 500 talented young people from Bexley represented the borough at the London Youth Games in Crystal Palace last weekend (8 and 9 July), coming third in what is the largest youth sports event in Europe.
Bexley's Mayor, Brian Beckwith, will be working hard during the coming year in his bid to raise funds for a Community Support Worker (CSW) to assist the Parkinson's Disease Society.
Bexley's youngsters can sign-up for free cyclist training courses, which will run throughout the school summer holidays.
Significant savings could be achieved by bringing most Bexley Council staff together on a single site, according to a report to be considered by Councillors next week.
Excited crowds gathered at Marlborough School in Sidcup last week (6 July) to see David Cameron MP officially open the school's new state-of-the-art hydrotherapy pool.
While their concerns about the Belvedere incinerator varied, those who attended last night's meeting of the Belvedere Community Forum were united in their opposition to the plant, which was given the go-ahead last month by the Government.
Bexley Council, working closely with the Bexley Community Safety Partnership, has secured Anti-Social Behaviour Orders (ASBOs) against two 16-year-old youths from the Hadlow Road estate in Welling. The youths, Colin (CJ) Wilkins and Joshua Gowers of Welling, have been involved in serious anti-social behaviour in the area for the past three years.
