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Road surface poor state on church lane
Sent to Buckinghamshire Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 7548054.
On entrance to church lane from high street end and all the way down to other end of church lane, over the winter this road surface is getting worse. As lots of parents and staff of the school use this road week daily, it is heavily used with approx 40 cars daily using it on school runs and any others for events at the church and village hall. We have lots of user groups at the village hall . Also the children are having to be extra careful walking down it from having lunch in the village hall week daily. Especially in mornings and afternoon school runs, the road surface being in a poor state and it now turning to gravel parts is making it easy for children to trip/slip over and cut their knees and arms. So I’m suggesting instead of us constantly reporting parts that need re doing to you, to save council money in long run is to re surface the entire Church Lane Road. There is also a big pot hole on the side road going off Church Lane (grey part on map).
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 in these cases no action will be taken.
During winter months we receive a very high number of reports regarding potholes or a poor road surface, it's easy to assume that potholes are formed due to roads being poorly maintained but that is not usually the case. There are many factors that can cause potholes, particularly during the winter months when water seeps in through cracks in the road surface, collecting underneath and when the water freezes, it expands and creates cracks in the road surface. Our priority is always the safety of road users, so in some cases during busy periods a permanent repair is not always possible immediately. However, temporary repairs are a way to ensure the area is safe until such times as we can return to make a permanent repair.
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Update
The Highway Officer has carried out an inspection and has identified that there is no immediate safety issues requiring attention, the decision is that no action will be taken at this stage.
The issue will be added to a package of works to be carried out at a later date.
Please note that all our roads are subject to regular Highways Safety Inspections, and all highway safety issues identified are actioned within the timescales set out in our policy.
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