Leyton High Road gets a new look.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....-Hill-EastEnders.html

Oh yes very plush, but will they be coming to a street near you?

/// Gordon Bennett, of Bennett Developers, one of four contractors on the project said: ‘We have up to 22 men working ten hours a day, including weekends, to get the work finished in time. The whole street looks cleaner.’ ///

GORDON BENNETT!!!!!!!!!!

[youngmafbog]

No doubt it is the cheapest shoddiest paint that will begin to pill sometime in September, then the street will look worse than the plain brickwork half of i was before.
Such utter nonsense.

[youngmafbog]

Peel even.

[ChuckFickens]

Why on earth have they blurred out Colonel Saunders face on the KFC shop front!

Looks much better, just shame it takes an event like this to get it done though.

[sandyRoe]

Who's paying for it?

[rowanwitch]

still the same folk living there or will they be locked away for the duration

[sp1814]

It's a fantastic improvement, but like youngmafbog, I am wary of quick turnaround makeovers (corners cut etc).

And I have a LOT of sympathy for Mr Bennett (name-wise).

[boxtops]

Yep, they're doing the same to our railway station, from whence the Olympic masses will speed their way to London when they get off the ferries..

[anotheoldgit]

sandyRoe

/// Who's paying for it? ///

Not out of the Olympic takings, that's for sure.

It would seem the taxpayer and Waltham Forest Council Tax payer are footing the bill.

*** It is being funded by a £475,000 grant from the Government’s Working Neighbourhoods Fund as well as money from Waltham Forest Council.***

[webbo3]

Chuck, I think the reason Col Saunders face is blurred out is beacause all the other pictures are photographs and the one with Col Saunders is from Google street view which automatically blurs out faces if drawings of faces it seems.


Dave.

[sunny-dave]

Peculiar Unisex Hair .... what the cograilway is that ?