Good luck trying to park near Boulters

Have you noticed on sunny weekends how crowded Boulters Lock Car Park is getting?

Maybe you wanted to visit Boulters restaurant and you probably found it hard to find a parking spot, particularly now the council have drastically restricted parking outside it.

Well, it’s all down to the fact that this hopeless council STILL have failed to convert the wasteland next to it into a basic car park.

In fact once it’s done it will instantly generate more revenue for them.

They made a start almost three years ago and then…nothing. It’s a tourist area don’t they get it?

Living locally, we regularly ask them when they will finally pull their collective council fingers out and get on and do what they promised to do nearly three years ago.

But who is ‘THEM’? Nobody knows.

And the trick is that ‘THEM’ keeps changing.

A while back it was Cllr Andrew Johnson, Cllr Targowski, then Cllr Hilton, Cllr Cannon, even good old Cllr Gerry Clark.

Remember him from the Great Oldfield Road Traffic Snarl Up?

But this week’s bright and shiny ‘THEM’ is Cllr Phil Haseler and Cllr Greg Jones. They sound like nice chaps don’t they? But when asked ‘is there any positive news to report?’ Cllr Haseler replied with a classic ‘Yes Minister’ type response: “The positive news is our request has not been dismissed, there have been other highway matters that have absorbed officer time preventing a quicker response to this, which is unfortunate.”

I’ll say it’s unfortunate!

Getting a straight answer out of these guys is a bit like trying to nail lots of jellies to lots of walls.

“The positive news is that the request has not been dismissed.”

What the hell does that mean? Who’s he asking? Himself? Nameless officials?

He should get tough with himself and ask himself when the council are actually going to complete the car park extension.

And he should firmly tell himself ‘by Christmas’.

And then he should pass on his reply to us. Simple.

But the plot thickens, because there’s also some bloke called Cllr Greg Jones (yes another one!) who apparently recently met an officer on site to toss around ideas for a more ‘financially viable and compliant option’.

I’ll translate that for people who like plain English. He means cheaper – which actually is okay.

As I’ve said before, next year there are local elections in Maidenhead.

If you personally have had enough of this useless shower, who even after THREE YEARS still haven’t managed to build a simple car park extension, whilst at the same time are planning to destroy Maidenhead Golf Course, then please tell them so at the ballot box.

MALCOLM JAMES STRETTEN Boulters Lane

Maidenhead