Just a quick thank you to those Labour councillors who managed to get the Arcade site open at last.

I really did not expect to see anything happening here given the economic slump, so I was really pleased to see the council open the site.

Temporary use sounds like a sensible idea to me and my kids loved the bouncy castle and climbing activities.

This just shows what local politicians can do if they are not held back by bickering and blocking tactics. Now I read on your blogs that the local Lib Dems and Tories are trying to piggy back on Labour’s success, and so they should.

Let’s have similar forward thinking initiatives across the borough. More of the same please.

John Taylor,

Forest Road,

Walthamstow.