Pavement verge requires siding out
Sent to Wooburn and Bourne End Parish Council 2 days, 2 hours, 11 minutes later. FixMyStreet ref: 7073983.
The section of Cores End Road, between Millboard Road and Furlong Road requires siding out due to the encroachment of soil, dead leaves, ground ivy, brambles and the shrubs. I have cleared three separate sections of this issue to highlight the problem. The three photos that are attached, indicate the width of the encroachment and the reduction of the pavement width. The width of the pavement is so narrow that only one person can walk down the pavement and very close to a busy road. Obviously, with cars parking on the opposite side of the road to this issue, the road being very busy, cars and lorries are having to navigate close to the kerb to let other cars and lorries pass, this is a health and safety issue for pedestrians, blind people and people using mobility scooter, etc. It would only take someone to trip on the vegetation runners or over balance and they could possibly fall in to the road. The siding out of this section of verge, would reclaim between one and three feet of pavement in places, allowing a safer route for pedestrians. The strimming of the vegetation will not be enough to deal with this issue, it requires a good siding out, to increase the pavements width for years to come. Many thanks.
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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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