Friday 3 September 2010

Who is being irresponsible?


This is the state of the cobbles (or setts as they should be called) at the intersection of New Market Street and Market Street Ulverston.



They have been like this for months.

Is not the County Council irresponsible for repairing them; if necessarily with some temporary weak cement filling?

Why is Joe Bloggs seen as irresponsible  for repairing them himself if he knows how?

But Joe Bloggs is told that such action would be illegal and would require endless permits and be liable to being sued if he did the work.

Are the County not being logical?

When a small mountain of setts were left  in The Gill, Ulverston unrepaired for a year, I repaired them when the County did not fulfil the deadline they had announced for that repair.

In future I shall repair the setts in the Gill within a month if it happens again.

Because of the setts above are in the middle of a busy intersection,  a temporary repair of filling in the large gaps is the only action  possible for the amateur.

But in my view doing the job myself is the only responsible action to take when the County does nothing.

Your thoughts?

2 comments:

Hana said...

well hi. this is my first time. not really used to comment on others. But from my point of view, i think you better do what you think you can do. anyway in my place if something happen even if it a small matter we need to write a letter and let goverment deal with it. but the government will take the action after they discussed the matter. and it is really slow compared to when we take the matter on our self. so if we think what we did is necessary so just did. Probably they will even thanks to you then. Good Luck.

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