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Roadworks are hitting our profits
• ORANGE barriers, double lines of them, and a dug-up roadbed have appeared suddenly in front of our Whitecross Street businesses. Customers now can’t get easily to us, and trade is drying up.
Islington Council’s contractor, Ringway, will make a profit but our profits to pay staff and suppliers are evaporating. Ringway came on the first day but has disappeared. This could go on for months.
The work is to resurface and fix footpaths in the bottom third of Whitecross Street as part of the regeneration of the street and its market, as the adjacent new Prior Weston School nears completion.
We understand the street will be tarmacked despite there being at least 17 statutory services for gas, electricity and cable TV with the right to dig it up, It will be a patchwork again in 10 years as the 17 services trench it. Already tarmac-resurfaced Whitecross Street further up at the junction with Banner Street has been dug up, with large noticeable patches left. It’s unsustainable and a waste of public money, but we are being penalised in the process.
We want compensation from the council for loss of business. We also want to discuss this with executive member in charge of highways and regeneration Councillor Lucy Watt and Bunhill ward councillors Ruth Polling, Jyoti Vaja and Donna Boffa.
BARBICAN NEWSAGENTS
NICHOLAS GEORGE OF LONDON
ALBA RESTAURANT
WHITE’S
PIZZA DELIZIA.
Whitecross Street, EC1
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