“The pavements have been cleaned, the street signs replaced with modern ones and the lamps given a contemporary update. The walls of the flats above the shops, which were a dirty brown, have been jet-washed back to their original sandy colour, with some painted in bright shades to complement the shopfronts below. Unsightly satellite dishes have been moved, and the mass of burglar alarms and CCTV cameras on the walls above each shop has been tidied up. 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.’”
— London 2012 Olympics: Leyton High Road gets new look that’s more Notting Hill than EastEnders | Mail Online
