Road running behind Middlebrook Road
Sent to Buckinghamshire Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 5904481.
I reported an issue with the pavement along the Road which runs behind the houses in Middlebrook Road last year. The pavement is so overgrown with bushes and weeds that the pavement is no longer usable and cannot be seen through the overgrowth. I was told this would be sorted within a couple of weeks by the local councillor but it never happened. It is no longer safe to park our cars along the pavement side of the road. My daughter came to visit us last week and parked her along side the offending over grow bushes, as she got out of the car, she tripped over these bushes and weeds with her toddler in her arms, both feel to the ground and although no serious injuries both were extremely shaken by the incident. Please please please sort this issue out for the residents of this part of the road, not only is it dangerous, the overgrowth will become worse on the next few months and is a total eyesore and undoubtedly there will be more accidents and next time it could be more serious.
Updates
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The report has been passed to the Highway Officer, who will carry out an inspection of the issue within 10 working days, emergency defects will be corrected or made safe at the time of the inspection, if reasonably practicable to do so. In this context, making safe may constitute displaying warning notices, coning‐off or fencing‐off to protect the public from the defect or other suitable action. If the inspection team cannot make safe the defect at the time of inspection, then they will instigate the relevant emergency call procedures to ensure appropriate resources are mobilised to make the defect safe.
There may also be occasions when the issue reported will not be repaired as it has been classified as a minor defect and does not pose any risk to either the safety or the integrity of the highway, these are called minimum recording levels as specified in our Highways Safety Inspection Policy.
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An order has been raised to repair the issue reported, this will be a permanent repair to be carried out as soon as possible. However, there are occasions when a temporary repair is carried out for safety reasons until such time as we can mobilise resources to make the repair permanent.
To ensure the highway network remains as safe as possible we will continue to carry out our regular Highways Safety Inspections which will include this issue until such times as the permanent repair is made
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