Streatham Hub Public Meeting #1 - so what did we learn?

Possibly the ugliest thing about Tescos prevarication on the Hub development is that the council have been happy to off-load development south of St Leonards Church onto Tescos and concentrate their attention elsewhere. The council feel they don’t need to do any development in the South as this is taken care of by Tescos. Apparently. Jo Negrini was specifically asked about this and chose not to answer.

So the pavements are deteriorating, the congestion on the High Road and, therefore, on the cut-through roads, hasn’t lessened and the retail profile of the area drops off sharply to phone-abroad shops, fried chicken shops and no-name plumbers merchants.

The only council investment has been to build in an IT training facility across from Morrisons which is apparently being paid for by the council to the tune of £25,000 per month but has never actually opened. Hmmm…