A spur to work together

This is the text of a letter I sent to the Editor of the Ilford Recorder today:

By allowing the sale of the Seven Kings car and lorry park to a bid with no specific community facilities, against the advice of its own planning brief, and by allowing the Seven Kings Action Plan to gather dust, Redbridge's Cabinet seems to have demonstrated its lack of interest in the concerns and needs of Seven Kings residents.

If the Cabinet aren't interested in bringing a community focus and community facilities back to Seven Kings then maybe we, as local people, can do it ourselves. My hope for 2008 is that we will see local residents, local community groups and charities coming together with local faith communities to work out together how we can bring into Seven Kings the community facilities, focus and funding that the Cabinet have rejected.

If we view the Cabinet's rejection of community facilities as a spur to our own working together then we can turn a missed opportunity for Seven Kings into a positive way forward.

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Leonard Cohen - Anthem.