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Outside Daisybank Hay Lane
Sent to Buckinghamshire Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 7945819.
I am writing to inform you that I have previously reported the broken pavement in-front of my property a year or two ago on Fix my street, however my report was closed based on the fact that it’s not a priority.
Over the year or so, the pavement has gotten worse and worse as the tarmac has crumbled and broken off even more, causing issues for people to walk over without tripping. As it’s outside our property we are having to deal with this everyday. My young child has tripped and injured himself so many times.
We also have a farm at the end of our road on Hay Lane and have tractors, large lorrie’s and delivery drivers who constantly drive over onto our pavement causing more disruption and breakage due to it being a narrow lane.
As you can appreciate it’s outside my house and we have Hay trucks which drop the hay onto the floor. I can’t not sweep the floor to remove the mess, however this means more crumbled tarmac is taken away leaving a huge pot hole in the ground. I have attached some photographs for you to see what it looks like now.
Recently, I reported the pavement again on fix my street assuming someone will priories this, however the case has been closed again.
Please could you advise me on what I can do to fix this pavement as it looks awful and it is constantly breaking bit by bit causing more of a hazard outside my property.
It is really upsetting and frustrating that we pay all this council tax and yet the council are unable to fix this issue for me.
Would appreciate some feedback and a solution to what we can do. This issue has been like this from 2022 since we moved and has gotten worse over the years.
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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Update
The Highways Officer has attended the site and completed an inspection based on your report.
As a result of this inspection, we plan to resolve the issue reported within 6-8 weeks.
Thank you for taking the time to let us know, your reports alongside our Highways Safety Inspections are crucial to ensuring our network is safe for all residents and visitors.
Regards
Buckinghamshire Highways
This report is now closed to updates from the public. You can make a new report in the same location.