Little Belhus Country Park

The Box of Chocolates

or

The Big Issue

A PRINCIPLE HERE

If I offer you 40% of a 20Ib box of your favourite Luxury Chocolates

you would be in heaven.

If I offered you the whole 20Ib Box

The chances are, that you would be feeling Sick.

THE BIG ISSUE IS:

If Rural Arisings ( the landscapers) & Belhus Land Ltd ( who own the land) and are involved in this Landfill/Country Park Project only give you 40% of the information, WHICH IS ALL THEY HAVE DONE

The chances are you could end up being even more sick or even Dead!

These people are out to make Money, not to give this land out of the kindness of their own heart!

They Cannot Sell it. They cannot build on it, but they can charge Demolition Company's and House Builders to Dump on it.

They will make millions OF £'S on it,

That is why they are giving it to the People at the end product

and

The Essex Wildlife Trust to Manage it

as a Country Park.

BECAUSE THEN, THEY CAN UNLOAD THE RESPONSIBILITY OF IT, AS THEY WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MAKE ANY MORE MEGA-BUCKS FROM THIS LAND.

There are leaflets being distributed with information taken from their own documents. The Contents are not rumours, but fact taken from documents aquired from their own sources.

The leaflet also Hi Lights how this Project affects you, the people of South Ockendon.

The FORUM REFUSED TO DISPLAY THE LEAFLET BECAUSE:

The Forum Support The Country Park and to hell with our Health & Safety.

Even though Heavy Traffic will trudge down

WEST ROAD & DAIGLEN DRIVE

up to 100 each day from 7am to 4.30pm for 5 days and Sat am's

FOR 10 YEARS

Have your Say at the

S.O.R.A

South Ockendon Residents Association

MEETING

On

THURSDAY 6th March 7pm

St Nicholas Church Hall

Canterbury Parade.

The Editor (Real Name: THE SHIFTER)

"That's my Editor, CAN YOU SPOT HIM?"

I like him to get stuck into the thick of things and blend in.

He can be his own worst enemy at times, but he sticks with the Issues at hand even if confronted by the oppressors Bite, he bites back and sticks with it.

He's Got some front so might as well use it.

Enjoy the Blogs Posts and check them out each week and you can make your comments on each one.

They will be informative, a bit of humour and sometimes challenging. Enjoy!

Don't forget the O.C.R.A.G blog site as well, they are working great for the Community! You can link to it at the very bottom of these pages. Easy Peasy!

SHOW YOUR SUPPORT!

South Road Zebra Crossing V Councillor Okunade

Great Start, but slow finishing!

What a Slow Coach our Council are. We were promised that the WHITE LINES would be painted in , two weeks after the dropped kerb and Anti Skid surface was put in.

Now 4 weeks on and we are still waiting. After talking to T/C, it seems we are waiting on EDF ENERGY to find the time to install the electrics to the Poles so the orange globes can be put on. Then the Council says it would only take two days to Paint in The neccessary Lines and the Crossing. But EDF feel it is not that urgent ( well not until someone is seriously injured or killed anyway ).

This crossing was delayed because a certain person in a nearby Terraced House put in an objection to it. The crossing was given planning permission and Work had started.

When I made enquiries about the objection, I was hitting a brick wall, but I had my suspicions as a vehicle was parked half way on the kerb outside their house. When I checked the Planning Site, I noticed that an application had been put in for a dropped kerb by the same person and from that address just feet away from where the crossing is to be and now situated.

I Objected to this Dropped Kerb Application as there could not be a driveway situated in the middle of zig zag lines and only feet away from the crossing. This would present a hazard.

The consultation period has now closed for planning application no. 08/00001/FUL

Current Status: Pending Consideration. Target Date 28th Feb 2008

Lo and Behold, I found out that the applicant is a Labour Councilor for Tilbury Riverside & Co.

SAY NA MORE, NUDGE, NUDGE, WINK, WINK, NEED A NEW MOTOR JOHN, SPECIAL HAND-SHAKE, NODS AS GOOD AS A WINK TO A BLIND BAT.

Lets just see what the Planning Committee do about this one. I've got paperwork to prove monkey movers are operating in this Council.

Watch this space!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SAY A LITTLE PRAYER FOR ME!

SMOKING ROOM ONLY

THIS HAS GOT TO BE THE BEST MESSAGE YET!

Does'nt need any more words does it!

(MURAL PAINTED ON CEILING IN SMOKERS ROOM)

Would you Adam n Bloody Eve It!

What a Bunch of Plonkers!

Parkland Developments Ltd have re input another Planning Application that is exactly the same as the one that was previously Rejected.

Now I wonder why they think that this one will go through?

Could it be that someone in Thurrock Council has given them the nod and a promise?

Nudge, Nudge, Nods as good as a Wink to a blind bat, Palm the Hand, Say Na More!

Thurrock Council must think us as local Village Parsnip Pickers, not that there's anything wrong with Village Parsnip Pickers! But these people think we must be stupid and not keep check on the applications and what is going on in the world.

This Company are being greedy and trying to get the extra two flats in the roof, which has been rejected By the Planning Committee who have also heard the Objections from the Local People to the plans. So why have this Company presented it again?

This was the question I put in an email to the Company today 22nd Feb 2008 and so far not got a reply. I will also ask the Planning Department the same question and also ask why this new planning application was accepted, given the last result.

• Planning application No. 08/00190/FUL
• Proposal: Demolition of Vacant Public House and Erection of a Two & Half Storey Development of 9 no 2 bedroom and 5 no 1 bedroom Flats, 14 parking spaces and cycle and refuse stores.
• Location A Stones Throw 92 South Road, South Ockendon.

The Planning Officer Dealing with this Application is: Nadia Houghton. Thurrock Council Development Services, Civic Offices, New Road Grays Essex RM17 6SL . 01375 652718

We need the Local peoples help to Write an Objection to this application on the grounds of the last refusal of Application No. 07/01143/FUL.

Previous to this: Thurrock Council had already granted planning permission for: 8 no 2 bedroom and 4 no 1 Bedroom Flats, 12 Parking Spaces and cycle and refuse stores. Application No. 07/00637/FUL.

Parkland Developments Ltd ( 01376 340866 )

Are being greedy.

Lets Stop Them Now!

BOOZE NOOZE- A SOLUTION?

Yeh alright, I've heard it all before.

The only way to cure the binge drinking is to take the Power away from the Supermarkets. All these Major Supermarkets share a lot of the Responsibility of what is happening in our communities as are the Parents in this Modern Era.

Too much power was taken from the Parents and successive Goverments went along with the OK YA HENRY'S AND then could not cope with the Backlash they caused.

Respect for Society has gone out of the window and for what. Greed of the Government, Greed of Business.

Bring Back the 21 RULE.

REMEMBER KEY OF THE DOOR WAS AT 21

LAWS WERE BASED ON 21.

Ths was changed to make money in Mass!

• Driving age decreased to 17 in order to rake in massive revenue.
• Drinking age decreased to 18 in order to rake in massive revenue.
• Smoking age decreased to 16 in Order to rake in the Taxes.
• Laws for getting engaged at 21, requiring Parents Consent and legal binding was axed. The idea of getting engaged was to keep each others promise to wed and see how suitable a couple were to each other, building their nest-egg, filling the bottom draw etc. A breathing space to be sure of Marriage and what their vows meant.
• Laws for Getting Married at 21 axed. Couples as early as age of 16yrs get married not knowing what is in front of them.

The reason these laws were in place were to stop what is now happening today. There is total direspect for Family Values and peoples lives. Kids at the age of 13 having sex, getting pregnant and then wonder why they miss out on their young life, then their kids grow up with less respect for others and they wonder where they went wrong?

The anti-social element in our society are a big joke, they cannot handle Normal Adult Life, that is why there are so many problems today.

• Make it illegal to carry Alchohol in any loose form in the Cab of a Vehicle unless in sealed packageing. Where appropriate stored in the boot of that vehicle.
• Make it illegal to Buy any Alchohol from supermarkets or Off Licences that are not sealed in a Bag and drinking & carrying it on the streets.
• Make a Total Ban of Drinking on the streets and public areas.
• People either drink in appropriate establishments or in their own homes.
• USE HEAVY FINES OR IMPRISONMENT TO THOSE WHO CHALLENGE.
• NO IF'S, NO BUT'S, NO EXCUSES. STAIGHT FORWARD LAW.

So there you go, how hard can this be?

But we don't wanna do that. What we want is for proper facilities and training for our youth in this community, because those who we talk about have been let down by their Education System, the Social Services, Thurrock Council and even over the years some of our Councillors (REMEMBER CLOSURES).

Give the youth an opportunity and I bet they would like to turn their life around. So lets see some of that Big Money turn it's sites into the South Ockendon Community Now! Stop closing down the buildings, start building new infrastructure now for our Kids and the Youth!

BOOZE IS NOT THE REAL PROBLEM.

THE REAL PROBLEM IS PEOPLE.

PEOPLE WHO MAKE DECISIONS.

PEOPLE WHO TAKE AWAY AND DON'T GIVE BACK.

THEY ARE THE REAL PROBLEM!

IF THERE IS CORRUPTION IN THURROCK?

WHO YA GONNA CALL?

I knew it wouldn't take long once the Money people got their mitts into the Re-Development of our Communities. Thurrock Council have a lot to answer for. There is too much emphasis on reccomendation and approvals for planning on the Big Boys Projects, who have the Money to buy their way into the major contracts. There is also Talk of Large donations to Political Parties for Favours.

Nothing changes there then?

The talk of Corruption read in our local paper does give some credibility to what this Communities People already think.

The Police should investigate the whole of the Council not just the four that are stated in the Paper. With the big build coming up, the Rats are coming out of the Sewers to take the Lions Share and take, take and take, then the crap gets built and we will be left to clean up the shite and pay big time for it.

THE BIG QUESTION IS

HOW MUCH OF THURROCK COUNCIL IS CORRUPT IF WHAT IS BEING REPORTED IS TRUE?

It is about time these were cut down

Whatever the reason these trainers are supposed to signify

doesn't Wash with this community

Thurrock Council should cut them down NOW!!

ARRIVA is letting the Community down Again

Arriva are playing games and they do not include respecting the Communities. Especially BELHUS & SOUTH OCKENDON.

373 has been withdrawn and the 370 stops at Lakeside.

WHO OWNS Arriva? & WHO OWNS FirstBus?

Don't they get it? People will not leave their Cars at Home & use the public transport until

These bus companies keep a regular and reliable service.

They fail every time!

There is a Petition going around and there is one at the Forum

Please show your support and Sign to get these services back as they were.

Thank you

Planning Committee Visit BENTONS FARM

It was a very good turnout in Mollands Lane organised by O.C.R.A.G (Ockendon Concerned Residents Action Group), with a silent protest as the Planning Committee visited T&S Multiservices Site at Bentons Farm.

The committee decision should be announced on Thursday 14th February. Everyone is welcome to support O.C.R.A.G and attend the meeting at Civic Offices New Road Grays at 7pm.

Since this Company took over the site last year, they have been in breach of Planning Laws and Thurrock Council would have let them get away with it.

Planning Officer (Paul Clark) seems too eager to reccomend the approval of this Companies applications, which has become very suspicious in the eyes of the community. Thurrock Council are supposed to represent the People who Live in this community, not those who have a few million in the bank and can palm hands to a very lucrative conclusion.

This Company deals with Asbestos and other Toxic Substances, it will only take one idiot to make a mistake. Then it will be too late.

THIS IS A RESIDENTIAL AREA AND NO COMPANY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO SET UP IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, ESPECIALLY AN ASBESTOS REMOVAL COMPANY.

LETS SUPPORT THE O.C.R.A.G

GO TO BOTTOM OF PAGES AND CLICK ONTO THEIR BLOG to Find Out More!.

LACK OF CONCERN FOR OUR COMMUNITY

Well! What's the point of having this Blog If I can't use it?

Having had the Thurrock Gazette early for a change, I was able to bring up some of the Crime Issues at the S.O.R.A meeting on Thursday, that affected our part of Ockendon. Two Officers were at this meeting.

1. West Road Senior Citizens Complex re firebugs and lack of response by police.

2. Bogus Water Officials conning an OAP.

3. Young Lad being attacked and beaten in Mollands Lane.

These issues were reported in the Thurrock Gazette.

I asked through the Chairperson, whether these officers could give an update as to the position of these investigations and if there were any arrests.

THEY COULD NOT ANSWER. They did not have any information and looked dumfounded about all three issues.

I requested that a question be put to the Council as to why had it taken over 14 months to agree to install video cameras in the OAP Complex area, considering the nature of the offences being committed. Usual excuses.

RED TAPE-RED TAPE-REDTAPE-RED TAPE-RED TAPE-RED TAPE-RED TAPE

I Bet it doesn't take that long

when the

Councilors Vote for their Increases!

HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS

Don't you just love our Police Force? Always at hand to uphold the Law!

Well anyway, it seems that crime rates are falling yet again as they would have us believe. Last weeks Gazette reported an attack on a youth in Mollands Lane, Pensioner duped to allow 3 Water guys into her house and Intimidation by yobs starting fires around and on Pensioners complexes off West Road.

What is really going on? Are our Police loosing it yet again?

Come on Residents Lets have your comments!

S.O.R.A MEETING THIS THURSDAY 7pm at The Forum Derwent Parade.