Moving forward on Randolph Avenue and Kilburn Park Road

Last week, we once again invited the Director of Transportation to Maida Vale for a ward visit to discuss the continuing problems with parking and road surfaces.

It has been just under six months since we took the Director on the last walkabout (see here). In that time, some progress has been made. Definite proposals have been drawn up to increase the number of parking spaces in Randolph Avenue, and are currently being commented on internally within the Council. We hope to bring these out for external consultation shortly, and look forward to local residents having their say on this very important matter.

Kilburn Park Road continues to prove difficult. Brent's promise to resurface the part of the road for which they have responsibility before April 2007 has not materialised, due to budgeting problems. Instead, they are now promising to resurface before April 2008, and we are working hard with Westminster Council Officers to highlight to Brent how important the resurfacing is. In the last few weeks, after requests from local residents, Brent have made a couple of temporary repairs to the road surface. We inspected these last week and they are not of a particularly high standard.

We'll keep pushing - we are determined to find solutions for both of these roads for the benefit of local residents.

Lee