7 April 2009 16:14:52 BST
Dr Dellow
I am delighted to confirm we have completed all remedial works to the cobbles on Market St., Ulverston.
I have also been informed that Cumbria County Council have approved the funds to rectify the stretch between New Market St and Brogden St.
Graham Wheelhouse is the Engineer for the scheme.
Please accept my best wishes for the future.
Thanks
Jeremy Robinson
Water Maintenance Project Manager,
United Utilities,
Hadrian Depot, Nelson Street.
Carlisle CA2 5BJ
My reply, on behalf of the Town:
Copy to Roz Harris, formerly of Ulverston who raised the matter with her bosses at United Utilities after seeing our petition on Market Street in September last year.
7 April 2009 23:08:47 BST
Jeremy Robinson,
Many thanks for your welcome news.
We appreciate your efforts in making a vast improvement to the state of our cobbles, so that many of the problems are greatly reduced.
We now look forward to the many other areas the cobbles being brought up to a similar standard.
The work of the county will still leave much more to be done but it is a much appreciated step towards our goal of having our cobbles restored to complete health!
Geoff Dellow
The story behind this is that when we approached United Utilities along with their employee, Roz Harris they agreed that the work carried out for them by Balfour Beatie in 2005 was substandard and agreed to fix their work even though their liability to do this expired in 2007.
They pointed out that they had never received a complaint from the County or anyone else before. This was in spite of the numerous complaints made to the County by the Town council which were ignored and apparently never forwarded to United Utilities.
This incident shows that Private Industry is far more concerned about its reputation than the County Council who behave in a cavalier manner, ignoring criticism from all quarters. It is not surprising that the Audit Commission give the County a very poor rating, yet despite this the Councillors choose to ignore this and support their Highways Department when questioned publicly over this.
Here is the account of the presentation
And here was the result :
To the question:"Why did you not supervise the contractors?"
The Highways replied "We don't have the money to do the repairs"
Which totally ignored the original question and was allowed to stand by the Chair of the meeting Cllr Geoffrey Cook despite this being pointed out.
4 comments:
bet you were mighty pleased when you got that email feel real proud now do you?
Yes, you could say that.
The result came after a lot of hard work, much of it from local people who signed the petition. The Town Councillors, sadly chose to ignore the petition.
Well done Geoff,take no notice of the inbreds who seek to detrsct from your efforts. I am composing a letter to the CEO of the county council enquring as to the reason for a certain highways engineer's failure to reply or acknowledge three letters from me . it is unacceptable for paid officers of the council to ignore correspondence.
Absolutely brilliant.
We all need to stick up for ourselves and be assertive.
Then whenever officers hear the word Ulverston, they know that they had better take note.
It really does work.
Should your actions not get a result I'll find out which Cllr I spoke to on Sept 10th - I can't track him down at present - James Buchanan springs to mind!
Since then I get my emails replied to though I have restricted sending communication to Nick as I expect an evasive reply - and am awaiting to be elected before being more tenacious!
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