Crossrail noise annoys families: One sufferer speaks out on Vallance Road

By © Muhammad Haque

Organiser, “KHOODEELAAR! NO to the Big Biz agenda scam Crossrail hole assault on the East End of London” CAMPAIGN

1955 Hrs GMT London Thursday 25 April 2013

This is Mr Yeabor Miah a resident in the “Bethnal Green South” Ward in the London borough of Tower Hamlets.

He has been a KHOODEELAAR! Campaign participant since 2007 when he was one of the residents who travelled to the Tower Hamlets Town Hall “Mulberry Place” [near the very remotely located Blackwall Tunnel] and observed from the “Public Gallery” the presentation of the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign petition by Organiser Muhammad Haque before the formal sitting of the Tower Hamlets Council in September 2007.

Nearly SIX years later, Mr Yeabor Miah and his fellow residents from the same area in Bethnal Green South ward are asking the question:

why didn’t Tower Hamlets Council listen to the Khoodeelaar! petition of September 2007?

Why are we being caused the noise, the nuisance and the disruption by Crossrail six years later?

Why is the Council standing idle while the so-called “Social landlord” THCH which is one of those to whom Tower Hamlets Council transferred the Council Housing stock Mr Miah lives in the Trahorne Close, near the Vallance Road.

Trahorne Close is in the inside of the estate reached from the Castlemain Street which is off the Street that is a side road parallel to the Whitechapel Road, much shorter but cove rug the length of the Crossrail local digging and noise-creating activities.

He is pictured here by © Muhammad Haque on Monday 22 April 2013, speaking a few yards from the Vallance Road. Here he is speaking in Seelotee and saying that the noise made by Crossrail has been unbearable for him and his family.

He says that for three years already [and another five years of Crossrail work to go yet] he and his wife have had to move away from the western side of their home and take shelter in Western side in order to avoid the penetrating noise.

He is saying that that noise came from the eastern side of their flat in the Trahorne Close. This picture is taken from a site where Crossrail is doing the noisy work next to the Vallance Road.

Mr Yeabor Miah is critical of Tower Hamlets Council and he is even more critical of those who have been colluding with the Tower Hamlets Community Housing [THCH].

Mr Miah has been compering for more than a year now about the behaviour of THCH which he accuses of ignoring the local residents and of imposing on the residents’ a plan that is unhelpful to the residents. Something the residents have not wanted.

Mr Yeabor Miah was ignored by the THCH staff concerned when he tarred to raised the issue with them of what the residents want.

[To be continued]