Park Langley Residents' Association
To promote and protect the interests of the residents of Park Langley
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Welcome to the website of the Park Langley Residents' Association.
The Association operates to promote and protect the interests of the resident's of Park Langley. Park Langley, situated in Beckenham, Kent, UK is a well defined geographical area bounded by three roads; Hayes Lane, Barnfield Wood Road and Wickham Way. A natural triangle is formed encompassing just over a thousand properties. Part of the triangle is located in a Conservation Area, the other in an Area of Special Residential Character. It is therefore worth preserving and enhancing the residential character of this area and the Residents' Association aims to do this.
This website should provide a means to keep us together as a community and so help to promote and protect our interests.
May 2009
The £5 yearly membership subscription is due. Those who pay by Standing Order - Thank you (526 of you do!) Letters are being delivered to those who pay by cash or cheque. Please pay your subscription promply - it goes towards street trees and flowers and is well worth £5.
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Snow Piles in Brabourne Rise & Elwill Way
During the week of snow of the 2nd February 2009, Bromley Council scraped the snow into large mounds on the above roads. These remained long after the main snow had melted. Some residents said they were dangerous and most wanted to know what the plan was. We have asked. The answer will appear below: (Received 17 Feb 2009)
"The original intention of snow clearance by JCB was, of course, to establish and maintain access to the properties in the area with particular regard to emergency vehicles etc.
The only reasonable action at the time with the extraordinary amount of snow was to form the piles at the edge of the road so that a main central access could be established - this action was repeated where necessary throughout the Borough and brought our services under extreme pressure".
Bromley Primary Care Trust is planning to provide a new Urgent Care Centre at Beckenham Beacon (with a pilot minor ailments service to supplement the minor injuries unit currently operating between 8am and 8pm seven days a week) and is also planning a new GP Practice at Beckenham Beacon but this will be more than a standard GP practice as it will be a GP Practice led health centre and see both patients who are registered and those who are not. In addition, the PCT realises there is insufficient NHS dental capacity in the Beckenham area and is planning to provide more NHS dentists locally.
Park Langley on the morning of 2nd February 2009
There seems to be an upsurge of crime and vandalism in our area recently. (Please see the Neighbourhood Watch website on www.plnw.org.uk.) We would like our Safer Neighbourhood Police Team to be ready and visible to deter any further increase. If any resident is aware of an incident, please let the Committee know.
An excerpt from Bromley's October Publication 'Watchword':
In-depth reports on neighbourhood policing throughout England and Wales have just been published. This is the first comprehensive set of reports on the effectiveness of the Government's key crime policy of having neighbourhood policing teams in every local council ward. Compiled by the watchdog, HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, the 43 reports give members of the public an opportunity to see just how well their local police teams are performing. Across the board, the HMIC inspectors found that all of the 43 police forces in the country were 'meeting the required standard'. But there are many areas where police teams 'could do better'. Consistency of performance from one force to the next is clearly an issue. Among the good performers was the Metropolitan Police, which the inspectors found was deploying 'the right people in the right place at the right time to ensure that its neighbourhoods are appropriately staffed'. Other forces fared less well, showing evidence of neighbourhood teams failing to engage with the community and priorities failing to reflect the area's needs.