The New Year has started with a series of follow ups and updates on my ongoing campaigning work in Brentwood and Ongar.
Last Friday I visited Stapleford Abbotts Primary School with Essex County Council’s Cabinet Member for Highways, Cllr Tom Cunningham, to show him the dangerous situation parents are in when trying to drop off and collect their children from school.
There is little parking available for parents, many of whom live more than walking distance from this little village school, so there is a real risk a child will be injured amidst the melee of cars having to park on road which has a speed limit of 40 mph. I have asked Cllr Cunningham to make the children’s safety a priority and to investigate all options to increase parking and decrease speed.
I have also followed up my meeting with Rail Minister Huw Merriman last year with another request for the Access for All funding to be reinstate for a lift on Platform 4 at Brentwood Station. I know Jim Hoare from the Brentwood Access Group is asking the same of Transport for London, and I hope this pincer movement on funding availability will finally work.
In the next month I am holding meetings to meet residents in some of our local villages and invitations are being sent out to all those who have expressed an interest in bringing their thoughts on their local area to my attention.
Pictures: Alex Burghart MP with Rail Minister Huw Merriman
Alex Burghart MP with Essex County Council's Cabinet Member for Highways, Cllr Tom Cunningham, at Stapleford Abbotts Primary School
