Residents — particularly in Conservation Areas — are fed up to the back teeth with rental bikes littering the streets and blocking pavements. The Council’s chosen enforcer, Kingdom, has already made national headlines for the threatening behaviour of its staff. Officers, it seems, are putty in the hands of these companies.
Now residents fear the same officers are being leaned on by Falco UK Ltd to install racks of these eyesores across Conservation Areas and zones of architectural significance. Falco UK Ltd is owned by a Dutch entity, FRIESA B.V. The Dame is checking it out….
No resident asked for any of this. These things scar the streetscape and serve no purpose that anyone wanted. Brace yourselves: the Council will doubtless run one of its sham “consultations,” massaged to manufacture demand that doesn’t exist.
Every residents’ association needs to be on guard. Take a leaf out of MISARA’s book — the Milner Street Area Residents’ Association fought off this blight and kept Lennox Gardens clean. The rest of us should be doing the same.
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