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Lansbury Housing Choice - Residents consultation
'Post-it' Note Feedback

INTRODUCTION

To launch the consultation element of Lansbury Housing Choice Poplar HARCA organised four introduction events. :

An initial open event on Saturday 6th March 2004 between 10.00 am and 1.00pm.
Three residents Drop in events on:
Tuesday 16 March between 4.00pm and 7.00 pm for residents from south of Cordelia street.
Thursday 18 March between 4.00pm and 7.00pm for residents from the Chrisp street Market area
Tuesday the 23 of March between 4.00pm and 7.00 pm for residents north of Cordelia street.

Members of Baily Garner's Masterplanning team attended all events and were available to receive comments from residents who were invited to stick "Post - it" notes onto a large scale site plan of the area.

There now follows a list of the comments received.

Comments received are listed in the categories below. These are very much direct quotes from the residents - it is now Baily Garner's intention to take on these comments in developing specific proposals for the Masterplan.

GENERAL

School has amalgamated to become Lansbury Lawrence.
Not enough for adults to do.
Racism + drunk people come at night - not safe.
Bring back Poplar Baths as a swimming pool.
Queen Victoria Seamen's rest, what's happening to it? - Marie Litson
Would like security patrols.
No play areas for kids
Get rid of pigeons
No swimming pool - need one
Open space, too many pigeons and dog mess on grassed area.
Links with schools to use their play areas
More greenery, trees and shrubs. .
Likes computer training, needs better publicity.
Parking after 5.30 for residents needed.
Would like security patrols.
No play areas for kids
Get rid of pigeons
No swimming pool
Open space, too many pigeons and dog mess on grassed area.
Links with schools to use their play areas
More greenery, trees and shrubs.
No extra parking for all the new developments .,
Refuse Storage - problems
Lots of old people on Lansbury
Danger of conflict between Lansbury West and East.
Recycling Centre needed
Youth Centre needed
We would like to see more youth activities
Congestion Charge and its effects
Elizabeth Lansbury and Susan Lawrence are one school - Lawrence Lansbury.

CHRISP STREET AREA

CHRISP STREET AREA & MARKET

Trees gone on market square, they did shelter the buildings.

No park, seating area with grass.

Lighting poor up the stairs to podium. Door entry doesn't work.

Market to be improved.

Increase size of market

Better signposts for Market Way residential area.

Play football on market.

Variety of shops needed.

Clean up.

Not enough shops - not any variety.

Drainage bad.

No activity at night

Unsafe - drugs prevalent.

A swimming pool near Poplar

More play areas for young people.

Problems outside Festival Inn during summer.

Scrap Market - No decent shops!

Crisp Street markets all covered - bookshops rteeded

Pubs serve under age.

Drug dealers on market phone.

Market-Put back tiles on pillars

Pubs serve under age.

Drug dealers on market phone.

Brick cleaning for 72-84 Kerby street.

HEALTH CENTRE AT CHRISP STREET

Put adventure playground here.
What's happening here?

ENNIS HOUSE

Council don't clean above the third floor.
No fire escape.
Fire escapes for blocks.
Nowhere to park.
Improve entrance lighting, stairway + walls, CCTV, cameras fitted to front of building,

IDEAS STORE

Hide the ideas store with trees at least on podium.

KILMORE

Paint outside of block.

Reduce drug problem

Door entry system to be fixed to reduce crime.

Nothing sperit, no security doors at grounCl level.

ASB, things thrown over landing.

Drug related problems.

No security doors

Was ramp up to podium

Main entrance door is broken. .

No play areas for children

Ideas store has got rid of only play space.',

Play area - football, swings, sand areas, target age groups 0-7, 7-11, 12-15

Security cameras not working.

Damp

Drug users - stairs

Better security

Broken windows on lower floor

Ponding on podium.

Dirty.

Cameras needed on stairs.

FITZGERALD

Kids hang out in streets nothing to do.
Not using the bins - dumping rubbish on ground
Poor outside lighting
Lift always breaking down
No children's play area on podium now.
Worried about children's safety-drug addicts in stairways
Better parking for tenants
Likes block, needs repairs, market is annoying, no kids play area, nothing for Bengali parents.
Communal areas need a clean
Kids had a football pitch on top of shops - now taken over by Ideas Store. Now play in Poplar Park and Bartlett.
Outside to look modern, friendly security guard, Park downstairs to play that won't get wrecked.
Better windows, cameras in lifts, knock down building and make houses instead. Cameras on stairs to stop drug addicts.
Concierge, ID cards - proof resident in building. Take away first floor entrance.
Lost fire escape, Ideas Store eyesore, community changed over years
Safe play area for children
Security - anyone can get into the building.
People sitting on stairs - drug taking. Lots of burglaries.
3 + 4B units Fitz and Ennis - Lots of children but no playing areas
Double glazing, Bathroom toilet broken. Security issues, drug taking.
Need play area, nothing for kids.
Abandoned cars not moved from car park .
Drug addicts in communal area.
Knock Fitzgerald down.
Unused green fenced off at the moment.
Better parking for people who live in Fitzgerald house and smoother roads.
Fitzgerald house -
Rubbish left by lift,
Better windows in flats,
Drug users,
Security people by doors,
Smells,
Main entrance too dark.

NORTH OF CORDELIA STREET AREA

LANSBURY GREEN

Children's play area - Lansbury green.
Park has many "escape" routes. Is It possible to close some off?
More paths for access
Poor lighting

TALBOT HOUSE

Stairwell very dirty - needs home cleaning programme
Open space to be improved
Garbage disposal needs to be sorted; sometimes there is rubbish on street.
Something for young people, too many hanging around after 9.00 pm - police have to be called. .
Issues with noise - music from neighbours, very loud can hear through walls
Front door to building easy to wrench open.
Condition of wall, good
Noise - Aesthetics
Ground floor doors always broken
Need improved doors
lifts not working - usually breaking down every 2 days.
Drug users using stairs on 10th floor
Do not have "the right to buy"

ESSEX HOUSE

Drug dealers at Bartlett park
Urinating in lifts
Like the flat - if only we could move it
Overcrowding of flats
Flats are lovely
No decoration inside
Stairs dirty
Entrance door broken
Have a garage on Carmen street ,
Dirty - people won't put rubbish in bins
Don't feel safe coming out of block
Would like bathroom and kitchen to be bigger
Very dirty - really gone down in the 12 years they have been there
Door entry never works
Urine in the lifts
Security door - have put steel door in on their front door. .
Improve intercom
Improve doors - young people coming in and blocking key holes
People sleeping on stairs
Gate needed to stop others parking
A lot of subletting

OSTERLEY HOUSE

Landscape similar to Maidstone
ntercom at the back
Brick wall around the block - like Maidstone house.
More security .
Refuse chutes.

GIRAUD STREET

Open space ok
Nothing in front of front door - need front gardens
Grassed area - good to take away kick about area.

ADVENTURE PLAYGROUND

Only open certain times not all time

CARMEN CLOSE

Fire access
Parking
Narrow street
Nice open space.

ALTON STREET

Needs to be painted
Window condensation.
Alton green space could be landscaped.
Play equipment in green space.
Better lighting.

SOUTH OF CORDELIA STREET AREA

HECKFORD HOUSE.

Yard at back but rubbish out front - messy.
Demolish Heckford house or renovate and deal with rubbish problem.

PLIMSOLL CLOSE

Nice community people look out for one another.
Make car park private.
Quite nice area
Lovely green.
Railings onto East India Road
Kitchens too small - more cupboards.

FLORA CLOSE

Flora close elderly residents
Nice Corner

ELGIN HOUSE.

No privacy on front balcony
Would like somewhere to sunbathe.
Roof garden.
3 people have parking.
Like a garden
Landscape car park have central staircase.
People use car park to access school - make car park private.
No security on Elgin house - open staircase closing off entrances.
Don't build high on Flora and overlook Elgin.
Parents dropping off children - park cars outside and around Elgin House - can't park or move your own car.
Elgin house dumping off rubbish.
Elgin house parking issues overcrowding.

ELIZABETH CLOSE/ GRUNDY STREET

Elizabeth close alley - smells, unsafe, rubbish issue; no chute. Grundy street - drug dealer's prevalent - use phone box and sell drugs on the corner of Duff/ Grundy Street. No - new builds to rear or park/ play area. Extend back garden, more lighting

UPPER NORTH STREET.

Dangerous road - cars drive too fast, width restrictions, pedestrian crossings.

BARTLETT PARK

Losing chunks off Bartlett Park.

HIND GROVE

Will the traffic ever be affected by any improvements to the traffic routes on the estate?

SHEPHERD HOUSE

Dark area "secluded", antisocial behaviour, drug dealing.

RICARDO STREET

Bird boxes to encourage sparrows.
Close up refuse and improve facilities.

SARACEN STREET

Road and pavement RE - improvements.

CHILCOT CLOSE

Green space (at back of Chilcot) Kids light fires and pull up trees.
Maisonette front door - vulnerable to break in. Gate at ground level solved problem.
Playground, kick about, cut through.
Rubbish blows from Crisp Street Market.
Well-lit lights on walls.
Do something with playground
Bonfire on Guy Fawks.
Maison, town house - no service charges. Bed sits.
Maisonette 3B, Now 4B - LR smaller. Deconv.
No 19 Chilcot house - only 3 on a communal - every one looks after each other.

FARRANCE STREET

Balconies to upper floors, washing, flower box
Green in front was nice now not
Warden call good for the mature.
Farrance Street 2-36 needs a warden.
Off Burdett road - lovely.

BYGROVE STREET

Security doors "slam" and make too much noise.
Car has been broken into.
Cables running garden.
Have car parking in front of block

Lansbury Housing Choice - Residents consultation 'Post-it' Note Feedback