Temporary Asphalt repairs to Ulverston's streets have become common practice.
Now is the time to say "enough is enough"
Will it be the County Square next?
"Here's another nice mess" may be very appropriate in the future when the County have sent their cowboys in to do "temporary repairs".
When will they ever learn to devolve responsibility back to the town to take care of its own affairs.
The opportunity is there now under the new government Local Area Partnership but will our sleepy councillors rise to take on the responsibility. Not on the present showing - but then we have a new broom in the form of our newly elected County Councillor James Airey. Hopefully he will show some leadership at the next Neighbourhood Forum to be held here at the Coro in Ulverston on July 13th at 7.30pm.
It would be great if lots of people attended so as to get an impetus going towards action in our area.
The agenda for this meeting has just been issued:
2. POSSIBILITIES FOR DEVELOPMENT IN THE NORTH LONSDALE ROAD AREA
South Lakeland District Council has draft proposals to develop council owned land at North Lonsdale Road,
next to Kennedy Street, which includes the depot site. This process will involve extensive public
consultation. It is proposed to include part of the land as an amenity area. If the development does go
ahead, then there is the possibility of plans for a community facility for local people. There is a long way to
go with this process, but Jayne Kendall, Regeneration Programme Manager for South Lakeland District
Council will explain what stage it is at, and what steps come next.
More irresponsible "consultation" with lots of provisos ?
3. ROOTS AND SHOOTS
This is an exciting new initiative which will encourage people not only to grow their own food organically, but
also learn how best to cook it – plot to plate. The group has a half acre plot just off the Urswick Road. It is
looking to design the plot in a sustainable low energy way, for example, capturing and storing water,
providing composting toilets etc. Sarah Atkinson from the group will explain more.
……………………………10 minute break for refreshments…………………………….
4. QUICKFIRE UPDATES
o Adult education in the Ulverston area
o 511 bus service + 70 bus service
o Multi use games areas
o World Orienteering Championships
7 comments:
Many other towns wouldn't stand for this awful level of maintenance. Do you walk around the streets of Bath or York and see random patches of asphalt 'repairs' everywhere you look? No, of course not, because both the council and residents wouldn't accept this kind of blight on their streets.
As for how temporary these repairs are, 5 years is bordering on ridiculous. Our supposedly permanent road markings are far more temporary than this. If this is temporary, the permanent repairs should last a century or more.
Well done for bringing up the matter Geoff. Hopefully it will shame them into improving their performance in the future.
And thanks for your comments here.
The Councillors are beginning to take note of your comments to see how much support there is for these ideas.
The more the better.
Just stating you agree with something that is said will do a lot of good and make some people wake up.
And there's another election coming up in the future. . . .
As you say in the article in the paper, setting a paving slab isn't a major or hugely time consuming job.
So how can they justify the cost of getting contractors in to temporarily put some asphalt down only to call them out again later to both remove the asphalt and do the job properly?
It must be a lot cheaper to just put the paving slab down in the first place. We're not talking about booking the time of a master mason here, they're often bog standard pavements. Aren't the council supposed to be trying to operate cost effectively?
The only reason I can think why they do it this way is that they hope they will get away with it being permanent and never have to put a proper slab down.
I used that web site i saw posted on here called fixmystreet,reported a pothole on friday looked out of my window they were outside fixing it.So not a bad web site to use reported friday fix monday
Great, someone has mentioned this before as being very effective.
Thanks for reminding us!
My criticism is the quality of the repairs.
In the Gill I reckoned that the repairs where back as even worse holes because of the poor quality of the repairs.
The other is the excessive use asphalt which is said to be temporary but stays there for years!
Great, someone has mentioned this before as being very effective.
Thanks for reminding us!
My criticism is the quality of the repairs.
In the Gill I reckoned that the repairs where back as even worse holes because of the poor quality of the repairs.
The other is the excessive use asphalt which is said to be temporary but stays there for years!
Just come along Victoria road and there getting ready for major road works geoff.My guess tho is there digging bits of the road out and then patching it up again.I thought i'd let you no in case you'd like to go and check what there doing
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