That's impressive!
Addressed to Glyn Davies, Head of Estates for local NHS, today 1st April.
Dear Sir,
This is perhaps an unfortunate date to chose to send a serious email!
It comes to you because of our inability to get answers to your plans to repair this wall which is located on your boundary of the Ulverston Health Centre and Union Lane, Ulverston
This video has, in desperation, been put on Youtube to alert you to the problem and pin points accurately the location of the problem:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vW2jLBF4_N4
It explains that a serious number of stones at the base of the wall in Union Lane have become loose and no longer offer support.
This problem has been repeatedly reported :
Several times to the Ulverston Health Centre itself
To the Highways Department and then on to the SLDC who then say that it is none of their concern because the wall is on your property.
Could you first confirm that you have received this email and then after consideration, what you propose to do?
Sincerely
Dr Geoff Dellow,
The Coach House, Union Lane, LA12 7BU
John Riley was round here within four hours to evaluate the problem and promised to get the wall repaired straight away.
He felt that it was more important to rebuild the wall in several places where it was leaning badly but this would require funding beyond his immediate budget and requires investigation of the future of the wall.
Now what will be really impressive is when the repairs are actually done . .
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Thursday, 1 April 2010
Saturday, 11 April 2009
Another small success!
The roadmarkings that we complained about outside Oxfam have been redone to a high standard.
Lines at the top of the Market Square, Freshly done in December 2009, were clearly inadequate.
A comment on Youtube was that they had been done by a bunch of cowboys in wet conditions.
Showing the firm that had done the work, a petition from local people expressing their disapproval of the workmanship, resulted in them returning to do the lines again.
It would appear that local government are allowing poor workmanship by their contractors.
The council are immune to criticism but the contractors clearly feel embarrassed.
It really pays to make a fuss.
Thus it proved unnecessary to present the petition as had been planned
From this you will remember the state of the three month old lines in February:
Now these lines look like this:
This may be seen by some as nothing to write home about, however anyone having had dealings with our Highways Department will think otherwise. They will realise that this admission that the original work was unsatisfactory signifies that in future the quality of line markings will be up to standard.
Lines done well in the first place last a lot longer and hence save money because they don't need redoing so often.
Contractors will I believe provide good work in Ulverston in the future provided we maintain our questioning attitude.
By electing me to the County Council in the forthcoming election, I will be able to raise matters like this much more easily and thus get a higher standard of service and save the taxpayer thousands in the long term.
Lines at the top of the Market Square, Freshly done in December 2009, were clearly inadequate.
A comment on Youtube was that they had been done by a bunch of cowboys in wet conditions.
Showing the firm that had done the work, a petition from local people expressing their disapproval of the workmanship, resulted in them returning to do the lines again.
It would appear that local government are allowing poor workmanship by their contractors.
The council are immune to criticism but the contractors clearly feel embarrassed.
It really pays to make a fuss.
Thus it proved unnecessary to present the petition as had been planned
From this you will remember the state of the three month old lines in February:
Now these lines look like this:
This may be seen by some as nothing to write home about, however anyone having had dealings with our Highways Department will think otherwise. They will realise that this admission that the original work was unsatisfactory signifies that in future the quality of line markings will be up to standard.
Lines done well in the first place last a lot longer and hence save money because they don't need redoing so often.
Contractors will I believe provide good work in Ulverston in the future provided we maintain our questioning attitude.
By electing me to the County Council in the forthcoming election, I will be able to raise matters like this much more easily and thus get a higher standard of service and save the taxpayer thousands in the long term.
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