Action against homes bid for station car park and closure of Chadwell centre

The Chadwell Labour Action Group steered by Group Coordinator Wilson Chowdhry, held a demonstration at the corner of Wangey Road and Chadwell Heath High Road on Saturday 20th October 2007. The demonstration was arranged in response to recent Conservative administration proposals, to close the Chadwell Centre on Gresham Drive and sell Chadwell Heath Station Car Park. Gordon Brown and our Labour government in contrast have secured the Crossrail project, which would result in a train to London arriving at Chadwell Heath Station every 2.5 minutes. Should our conservative council not also support an effective park and ride scheme to induce better use of public transport?

It was the Chadwell Labour Team that first warned local residents of the threat to Chadwell Station Car Park in our "Chadwell Rose" newsletter of November 2006!

Our Team invited residents to sign two local petitions opposed to these audacious proposals - and collected in excess of 100 signatures on both petitions.

Many residents were extremely concerned over the proposals to build multi-storey residential accommodation at the Station Car Park. They were infuriated by the significant over abundance of similar new builds that have destroyed the fabric of the local community.

Chadwell Labour Action Group also used this event to highlight the all-party demonstration against reduction of services at King George Hospital. The demonstration to be held on Saturday the 27th October at Ilford Town Hall from 1:30 will include speeches from Mike Gapes MP, the TUC and others. Again Labour locally take the lead in a strong campaign against the threat of close our Accident and Emergency department at King George Hospital, which we feel would be the spur for additional losses resulting in the closure of King George Hospital in its entirety.

Wilson Chowdhry Team Leader said:

"All Redbridge residents are anxious by the Tory council choices of late. On one hand they choose to reduce the adult social services budget in their unreasonable attempt to fund £114k worth of new Jaguar cars for there elite. On the other hand they do not take responsibility for the loss of Redbridges only real facility for people suffering Multiple Sclerosis. Inexplicably they also intend to waste £36m on an olympic sized swimming pool. To pay for this they are trying to sell many community facilitiesthat are needed such as our allotments and car parks. The Chadwell Labour Party will continue its fight to save King George Hospital, the allotments and our car park from any further losses. We hope that the people of Chadwell Heath will work with us against the reckless Tories. Labour is the only key opposition in town, the Liberals are too soft"