Whipps Cross neighbours object to road between their gardens | East London and West Essex Guardian Series
The "panhandle" leads directly onto Hospital Road Residents living next to Whipps Cross are urging the council not to let the NHS use a stretch of open land as an access road while the new hospital is built. Land known locally as the “panhandle” - where the hospital is the “pan” - runs from Hospital Road until just before Lea Bridge Road, between the back gardens of numerous homes. The Panhandle Action Community Team (PACT) is concerned Barts Health NHS Trust, which runs Whipps Cross, wants to open up this land to provide access for construction vehicles. At a meeting of the n...