NEARLY 250 people living in Waye Avenue in Cranford have signed a petition calling their councillors to task.
Residents claim their ward representatives have failed to tackle a host of problems, including uneven footpaths, a dangerous junction, and overgrown bushes in neighbouring Waye Avenue Park, despite repeated complaints.
The petition, handed in at last month's borough council meeting, calls on Hounslow Council to: "...take positive action to improve the quality, skills and knowledge of our three councillors, who are not very effective and seriously lack advice and support in case work.
"Further, they need to be motivated to escalate their interest in Cranford community – the community they chose to serve and now seem to have forgotten their job remit."
Amar Singh Dhaliwal, who collected the signatures with neighbour Darshan Singh Narula, told the Chronicle he had grown tired of asking for the same problems to be fixed.
"This is not a political thing, these are genuine issues, but whenever we approach our councillors they say there's nothing they can do because they're Labour members and they're in the minority," said the 71-year-old grandfather-of-two and former Gate Gourmet worker.
His main concerns are overgrown bushes in the park, where he claims antisocial youths often gather to drink, damaged bins not being replaced and a 'bottleneck' at the entrance to the road, posing a risk to pedestrians.
A spokeswoman for John Laing, which looks after the borough's open spaces on behalf of the council, claimed it had already addressed many of the concerns about the park and more improvements were on the way.
She said the park had passed an inspection at the end of October, following an 'extensive work programme to bring the park up to specification'.
Work to cut back the overgrown bushes, planted several years ago by a conservation group, and to provide more bins is due to take place as part of the company's 'winter works programme'.
She added that problems with the footpath had been reported to the council and were due to be repaired shortly.
None of the ward councillors in question, Mohammed Chaudhary, Poonam Dhillon and Sohan Singh, had responded to the Chronicle's enquiries at the time of publication.
