Campaign update: Keith Prince AM excels while Cllr Athwal helps & then disappoints

I met with Keith Prince on Monday of this week to make the case for why the £49M bid document to "reconfigure" King George and Queens be published. My efforts to meet with Cllr Athwal on the same subject were rebuffed.

On Tuesday morning Keith spoke at a Barkingside21 meeting and announced he would be writing to BHRUT to seek the immediate publication of the £49M bid document.

Also on Tuesday Cllr Athwal put up the banner on the Town Hall, which was very welcome.

Later on Tuesday evening I asked Councillor Athwal to speak at the meeting on the 30th and call for £49M bid to be published.

To my surprise he declined to do so per the video at the link below, the exchange is towards the end of the film.

I am baffled as to how Cllr Athwal can represent Redbridge residents to the best of his ability when he does not know what is in the bid. For all we know £45M of the bid monies could be spent at Queens and £4M on King George. The way to end the speculation is to publish the bid.

I would expect Cllr Athwal to know the detail of a cross borough bid regarding other services for education, policing etc. It is baffling that he does not want to see the detail of a major bid for health monies.

Let's hope Cllr Athwal changes tack on this issue. Keith changed position on the Fairlop plain markets after thinking things through, this is an example for Cllr Athwal to follow. Event page for the 30th meeting is below:

https://www.facebook.com/events/935452863511949/

& video below

https://www.facebook.com/andywalker19/videos/10218949972088052/?t=7