Action scheduled
Pavement on west-side of Chesham Road from Devonshire Ave to Copperkins
Sent to Buckinghamshire Council 1 week, 6 days, 1 hour, 14 minutes later. FixMyStreet ref: 8504445.
This pavement is dangerous, with the wet leaves and overgrown hedges/shrubbery means that the effective safe width of the footpath is about 15cm which is not safe to walk on (or use a wheelchair or pushchair). The Disability Discrimination Act recommends that a minimum of 1200mm width of footway should be kept free of obstructions. Children use this to walk to school (and have to balance on the tiny bit of pavement not having leaves on) and one slipped this morning and fell into the road. Luckily there was a gap in traffic and they were OK, but they very much could not have been. This seems to be an ongoing problem with this stretch of pavement (reported for a few years) please can the lives of residents including children seriously and sort this out properly, thank you.
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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
We have reviewed the issue reported and have amended the category; this will ensure your report is directed to the most appropriate team at the council.
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