Combe Down Lib Dem Environment Campaign - call for Council to clean up its act!

1.25.10pm UTC (GMT +0000) Mon 8th Jan 2007

We believe that our local environment is in need of some attention. Already we have had redundant posts removed last summer from Combe Road and taken a dustpan and brush to clear up the glass at the damaged bus shelter at the MoD. The glass panel has not yet been replaced - over a month later. Now we want the old, battered oil drum pinch point in Combe Road removed now that the road is closed, and a number of other small tasks carried out. Some of these tasks are just a few weeks old, some months, but some 2 years old. Most of these issues were raised with us by local residents.

Local Lib Dem Campaigner Cherry Beath said:

"There are a number of things that need to be done in Combe Down to improve the local environment. I know some of these things are small, but if not tackled they all add up and give the impression of a neglected, messy environment. We should not have to keep pestering the Council to do these simple things that residents pay their council tax for".

Councillor Roger Symonds (Lib Dem, Combe Down) said:

"The Council should be able to complete these simple tasks within a reasonable length of time. The Highways Department needs to look at the performance of the Council's highways contractor. I am fed up with asking for these small things, mostly requested by residents to be done again and again."

Some of the tasks that have not been done:

signage in Combe Down - particularly connected with the new Firs one way system - no right turn into the Firs from North Road sign needed - remove cul de sac sign at the shops end of the Avenue and move the no entry signs in its place

remove out of date 'heavy vehicles' sign now directing vehicles to the closed part of Combe Road

remove redundant signs for weight limits

remove old oil drum 'pinch point' in Combe Road - now lying in the gutter

repair of bus shelter glass panel at MoD

repair plastic panel in bus shelter at Southstoke Road (showcase route)

install temporary and permanent bus stops with timetables in North Road

repair broken water stopcock at entrance to the Firs Field work site

clean out blocked gullies

re seed and protect churned up grass verge at bottom of The Firs

remove temporary double yellow lines in the Avenue and in Church Road - repeated requests for over 2 years

remove unnecessary and out of date signage

repair potholes in Exmoor Road - repeated requests over 2 years

Three tasks have been completed following our requests to B&NES:

straighten up light standard at crossing in North Road

fill deep pothole in Ralph Allen Drive

redundant poles removed from Combe Road last July

We have put in a question about when we can expect these issues to be addressed to Cllr Sir Elgar Jenkins at next Wednesday's Council Executive.

ENDS