ASIF KHAN FOR COUNTY AND RICHARD SMITH ELECTED FOR LEGGATTS
NORTH WATFORD LABOUR TEAM NEWS FOR YOUR AREA
 Bilqees Mauthoor, Richard Smith, asif Khan
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Asif Khan, Ahsan Khan, Sohail Bashir with team
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YOUR NORTH WATFORD LABOUR TEAM
Sohail Bashir (Callowland councillor)
Asif Khan (Leggatts councillor)
Richard Smith (Leggatts councillor)
Bilqees Mauthoor (Leggatts councillor)
Ahsan Khan (Callowland councillor)
See contact details at foot of this page or click on their name
Sohail Bashir (Callowland councillor)
Asif Khan (Leggatts councillor)
Richard Smith (Leggatts councillor)
Bilqees Mauthoor (Leggatts councillor)
Ahsan Khan (Callowland councillor)
See contact details at foot of this page or click on their name
Concern over safety at new unsupervised North Watford Playground
Concrn over safety
Harebreaks kids and parents lost their supervised adventure playground
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Parts missing
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Dangerous climbing unsupervised
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Labour North Watford councillors have expressed their concerns that the new 'Adventurous' playground in north Watford has safety issues. The £1.5m playgrounds (2) have been bought by the Lib Dem Council after it shut the 25 year old adventure playgrounds and sacked the staff. Councillor Asif Khan said, "We have got urgent work undertaken to for missing or broken parts but our concern remains that it is only time before an injury occurs here due to lack of supervision."
Highways improvements for North Watford confirmed
Popular SIDs are being installed
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Thanks to your Labour team, a whole range of highways improvements have been agreed by Herts County Council for North Watford. Here's the list of works
Ash Tree Road (two bellmouths) Plane and Inlay cw resurfacing.
Leggatts Wood Avenue Footway reconstruction
St Albans Rd Footway reconstruction
Fuller Road SID plus socket
Parkgate Road Extra socket
Leggatts Wood Avenue SID plus socket
Beechwood Rise Extra socket
Leggatts Rise SID plus socket
Chilcott Road SID plus socket
Gammons Lane, Maytree Cresc, Oakdene Rd, Sandringham Rd
Foxhill - Waiting restrictions – Informal Consultation
Gammons Lane, Maytree Cresc, Oakdene Rd, Sandringham Rd
Foxhill - Waiting restrictions – Formal Consultation
Gammons Lane, Maytree Cresc, Sandringham Rd
Foxhill - Waiting restrictions – mark yellow lines and install new sign plates.
Beechwood Rise - Footway patching
Beechwood Rise junction with Longspring - Footway bollards and patching
Longspring - Potholes from DfT fund
Leaford Crescent - 20mph Zone Signs
Breakespear Close - Adjustment to pedestrian guardrail
Sandringham Rd - Cw thin surfacing
St Albans Rd j/w Brixton Rd
White KEEP CLEAR markings
Various locations - Restoration Fund- road markings
Various locations - Restoration Fund – drainage (mainly grips and ditches)
Gammons Lane - 20mph Zone outside Beechfield School. (Awaiting UKPN connections.)
Gammons Lane - Bus Stop upgrade
A41 North Western Avenue / Gadeside
Surface Dressing , from Hunton Bridge to end of Dualled Section near Rushton Ave., including slip roads on A405 junction.
Leavesden Rd nr Diamond Rd - Signals refurbishment
Gully Cleansing - various locations
Thanks to your Labour team, a whole range of highways improvements have been agreed by Herts County Council for North Watford. Here's the list of works
Ash Tree Road (two bellmouths) Plane and Inlay cw resurfacing.
Leggatts Wood Avenue Footway reconstruction
St Albans Rd Footway reconstruction
Fuller Road SID plus socket
Parkgate Road Extra socket
Leggatts Wood Avenue SID plus socket
Beechwood Rise Extra socket
Leggatts Rise SID plus socket
Chilcott Road SID plus socket
Gammons Lane, Maytree Cresc, Oakdene Rd, Sandringham Rd
Foxhill - Waiting restrictions – Informal Consultation
Gammons Lane, Maytree Cresc, Oakdene Rd, Sandringham Rd
Foxhill - Waiting restrictions – Formal Consultation
Gammons Lane, Maytree Cresc, Sandringham Rd
Foxhill - Waiting restrictions – mark yellow lines and install new sign plates.
Beechwood Rise - Footway patching
Beechwood Rise junction with Longspring - Footway bollards and patching
Longspring - Potholes from DfT fund
Leaford Crescent - 20mph Zone Signs
Breakespear Close - Adjustment to pedestrian guardrail
Sandringham Rd - Cw thin surfacing
St Albans Rd j/w Brixton Rd
White KEEP CLEAR markings
Various locations - Restoration Fund- road markings
Various locations - Restoration Fund – drainage (mainly grips and ditches)
Gammons Lane - 20mph Zone outside Beechfield School. (Awaiting UKPN connections.)
Gammons Lane - Bus Stop upgrade
A41 North Western Avenue / Gadeside
Surface Dressing , from Hunton Bridge to end of Dualled Section near Rushton Ave., including slip roads on A405 junction.
Leavesden Rd nr Diamond Rd - Signals refurbishment
Gully Cleansing - various locations
Labour councillors win Leggatts Green fence victory
Labour councillors Anne Joynes and Asif Khan demanded the site be secured
Following pressure from your North Watford Labour team, local residents and Everett Rovers Football club, Taylor Wimpey installed barriers on Leggatts Green at their own cost.
Councillor Anne Joynes (pictured here) wrote to Taylor Wimpey to get them to put up the barriers.
Last summer, as widely reported, the open area was illegally occupied twice. Hundreds signed Labour’s petition calling for action. Fly-tipping and litter was cleared from the green. House builder, Taylor Wimpey finally acted to fence off the area. Councillor Anne Joynes said, “Residents have thanked us for the work we’ve done on this. The fencing is at last far more secure.”
Councillor Anne Joynes (pictured here) wrote to Taylor Wimpey to get them to put up the barriers.
Last summer, as widely reported, the open area was illegally occupied twice. Hundreds signed Labour’s petition calling for action. Fly-tipping and litter was cleared from the green. House builder, Taylor Wimpey finally acted to fence off the area. Councillor Anne Joynes said, “Residents have thanked us for the work we’ve done on this. The fencing is at last far more secure.”
Parents protest as their kids hopes are crushed by the Lib Dems
Labour Councillors visit Harebreaks Adventure playground - now being demolished
Liberal Democrats have crushed children’s hopes of seeing their adventure playgrounds saved.
Both the town’s much-loved adventure playgrounds, at the Harebreaks and at Harwoods Road site in West Watford have been axed and the caring staff sacked.
The Lib Dems had three opportunities to reconsider their controversial and unpopular decision which was the subject of legal action by protesting parents.
However, at every turn, they stubbornly refused to listen, rejected expert advice and voted through the demolition.
In a shocking turn of events, Liberal Democrat councillors were forced to admit they didn’t even bother to speak to local parents who were trying to put forward options to save the adventure playgrounds.
Local mum, Sophie Wilson of Leggatts Way, hit the nail on the head when she said, “The Lib Dems just don’t care – for decades children have been going to the local play areas and have worked with the great play workers there. It is all now gone.”
Leggatts Ward Councillor Asif Khan of Brixton Road agreed saying, “Generations of Callowland and Leggatts children have played at the adventure playgrounds. They were a fantastic unique facility. The supervised play made them different. All the present council wants to do is to bring in other unsupervised play areas the like of which we have plenty already.”
Both the town’s much-loved adventure playgrounds, at the Harebreaks and at Harwoods Road site in West Watford have been axed and the caring staff sacked.
The Lib Dems had three opportunities to reconsider their controversial and unpopular decision which was the subject of legal action by protesting parents.
However, at every turn, they stubbornly refused to listen, rejected expert advice and voted through the demolition.
In a shocking turn of events, Liberal Democrat councillors were forced to admit they didn’t even bother to speak to local parents who were trying to put forward options to save the adventure playgrounds.
Local mum, Sophie Wilson of Leggatts Way, hit the nail on the head when she said, “The Lib Dems just don’t care – for decades children have been going to the local play areas and have worked with the great play workers there. It is all now gone.”
Leggatts Ward Councillor Asif Khan of Brixton Road agreed saying, “Generations of Callowland and Leggatts children have played at the adventure playgrounds. They were a fantastic unique facility. The supervised play made them different. All the present council wants to do is to bring in other unsupervised play areas the like of which we have plenty already.”
Labour Job Done - SIDs installed |
Lib Dem dumping disgrace |
Six speed Indication Devices (SIDs) have been installed across North Watford thanks to your Labour team.
North Watford’s County Councillor Anne Joynes secured funding to get these in. SID’s have been installed in Fuller Road, Parkgate Road, Leggatts Wood Avenue, Beechwood Rise, Leggatts Way (pictured above) and Chilcott Road. Labour has acted on residents’ concerns about speeding in the local area. Street litter success Dumping at Ridge St reported by your Labour team
A dumping hot spot near the corner of Ridge Street and St Albans Road has been tackled thanks to the persistence of your local Labour team.
Rubbish and all sorts would build up there on a regular basis which was unsightly and unhygienic. “It is totally inaccurate for the Liberal Democrats to put out a wholly misleading leaflet claiming the issue had been ignored by councillors,” pointed out Councillor Bashir. “It’s your Labour team that took the lead to get the dumping stopped and cleaned away,” he said. “Watford Council had been dragging its feet, but we finally persuaded them to give it higher priority and investigate the source of the rubbish." Environmental Health Officers traced the culprits - people living in flats above a nearby shop. CCTV will be installed. Anyone seen dumping in future will be prosecuted. “It is a good result all round for residents and the reward for the Labour team’s hard work,” said Councillor Bashir |
 Ahsan Khan
A bid by your local Labour team to make our streets cleaner and to crack down on fly-tipping has been flatly rejected by Watford Liberal Democrats. Labour’s carefully costed proposal from Councillors Sohail Bashir and Ahsan Khan would have seen increased levels of street cleaning in North Watford especially at weekends and focussing on the main St Albans Road shopping areas.
The proposal was voted down by Liberal Democrat councillors at a meeting in October 2016. The Lib Dems, claimed extra cleaning wasn’t needed! North Watford’s only Lib Dem councillor didn't bother to show up at the meeting. Councillor Ahsan Khan said “In our survey conducted earlier this year, residents told us overwhelmingly that there was a litter and fly-tipping problem which needs to be sorted. We fully agree and want to improve the area. It is disappointing that the Liberal Democrats despite claiming to care, refuse point-blank to do anything about it. Like the rubbish they need to be swept away.” Anti-social behaviour - action!
LOCAL Labour councillor Asif Khan reported the burnt benches (left) at the Harebreaks play area and another one at the North Watford Playing Fields last summer. Thanks to his efforts they have now been replaced.
The Lib Dems have falsely claimed the credit for his good work. That is most disappointing. As the Watford Observer reported, it was quite clearly Labour who acted first. Councillor Asif Khan has called for an increase in police patrols to deal with the anti-social behaviour in our local parks. He said, “There have been incidents in Callowland Rec, North Watford Playing Fields and at the Harebreaks play area. There have also been cases of drug taking too. The police need deal swiftly with this. If anyone sees anti |
COUNCILLORS FOR NORTH WATFORD
 BILQEES MAUTHOOR LEGGATTS
Bilqees Mauthoor lives in Leggatts ward in Leaford Crescent. She is a mum and a Clinical Nurse Manager and local campaigner.
Contact 07958566037 bilqees.mauthoor@googlemail.com 
ASIF KHAN LEGGATTS
First elected to Watford Council in 2011, Asif Khan won the seat from the Tories following a vigorous campaign based on local issues. Since then he has established a strong track record of getting things done. For Asif's contact details click here
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Callowland and Leggatts Councillor
Anne JoynesA resident of North Watford since childhood, Anne retired from her role as Head of Sixth Form in a local Secondary School. She was elected as Labour councillor for Leggatts ward for the Council Elections in 2012 and as County Councillor in May 2013
Contact Anne on 07713146810 |
