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Estate Issues 2

Pavements

Please help us with our endeavours to have our pavements repaired,to a standard that allows disabled / wheelchair users to use them.

If you are disabled and use a wheelchair or know of a friend or neighbour that uses a wheelchair, we need to hear from you, with your views and opinions on the condition of our pavements.

There is a distinct lack of dropped curbs throughout our estate, your views and comments also needed.



The text below is from the Estate Issues 1 Page

The pavements throughout the estate, while being poor only need minor work done according to the council, a couple of potential trip hazards where identified and have been repaired. We as a Residents Association have a different opinion, in our view the majority of pavements are in a disgusting state of repair, given the amount of cracked and broken slabs, the paths look like crazy paving. We have had numerous complaints from disabled users and their carers. Almost all the pavements are un-usable by wheelchair users because at most driveways there are no dropped curbs. There are also road junctions within the estate that have no dropped curbs. Because of the condition of the pavements, wheelchair users and elderly people have to use the roads to walk on, which in our view is totally unacceptable as well as being potentially dangerous. Disabled people suffer enough stress for their own various reasons without having the added risk of using our roads because the pavements are not fit for purpose. The council should be ashamed of this situation! Are they going to wait until an accident occurs, then take another look at the problems and then continue to do nothing? We will be making further complaints to the council through our ward councillor.