ePetition details

Stop the sale of Land in Cherry Avenue

We the undersigned petition the council to stop the sale of land between no.48 & 49 Cherry Avenue and hold Network Rail to account for causing a 'statutory nuisance'. The right to health, peaceful enjoyment of one's home and to the fundamental human needs of sleep and good health are currently being actively denied to many residents. We call upon the Slough Council to: 1. close the railway access point via the land that is also the access point the residents garages. 2. stop Network Rail and their subcontractor vehicles entering this cul-de-sac residential road. 3. contact the Government Legal Department and assist residents with 'Communities Right to Bid' to stop the sale of the land in Cherry Avenue. 4. monitor the environment and investigate complaints. 5. make a judgement of whether or not the pollution constitutes a 'statutory nuisance', and if proved true, to serve abatement orders if the pollution is judged to be statutory nuisance.

The office of Rail Regulation requires Network Rail to have a sustainability policy but emphasizes that they not do environmental monitoring and that the local authority are the body charged with dealing with environment health problems.

There has been a long standing issue and the council are aware, about network rail using a piece of land as an access route to the rail lines behind Cherry Ave.

The land has always been maintained and looked after by the residents that own the garages either side of it, dating back to as early as 1960's.The land provides a secure play area for the children and is also the access point to the garages.

The issue now is that the land between No.48 & 49(which we've found out is owned by the Government Legal Department formerly known as the Treasury) is up for sale by Auction (freehold), no doubt Network Rail will express an interest.

The residents are quite concerned that this issue has gone on for so long without a resolution favouring the residents, and even more concerned that the council can not seem to hold Network Rail to account.

The auction is on 8th Sept, the details are now live on the auctioneers website http://auctioneertemplates.eigroup.co.uk/LotDetails.aspx?LotID=794075&a=5&c=brn.

This following text has taken from the document titled 'Community Right to Bid'
The scheme requires an excellent understanding of the needs of the local community. As such local authorities will have a pivotal role in implementing the Community Right to Bid, working with local communities to decide on asset listing, ensuring asset owners understand the consequences of listing, enforcing the Moratorium period and in taking decisions as part of any appeals process.
This advice note, which has non-statutory status, is aimed at helping local authorities to implement the scheme so that they can work with their communities to protect the buildings and amenities which are of great local significance to the places where people live and work.

Link to 'Community Right to Bid'
https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&ik=b0c8c0b88b&view=att&th=14f5d09188fbaf22&attid=0.1&disp=inline&safe=1&zw

This ePetition ran from 26/08/2015 to 03/09/2015 and has now finished.

7 people signed this ePetition.

Council response

With the agreement of the lead petitioner this ePetition has been closed due to a paper petition submitted on 2nd September, 2015 relating to the same subject matter. The signatures on this ePetition will be added to the paper petition signatures.