Firm ordered to repair new paving
Scene setter of path on Westgate. 091C
BOTCHED repair work on an area of the brand new paving in Grantham’s Market Place caught the eye of astonished staff at a nearby business.
Chris Edwards, of Martin & Co, contacted the Journal this week, shocked by the damage.
However, Lincolnshire County Council’s highways department says the cement is a temporary solution used by electricity company Western Power following emergency works.
Area highways manager Mark Heaton said: “As part of the new Streetworks Act, they are obliged to restore the paving to exactly the same standard and with the same materials. We have already contacted them to ensure they complete this as soon as possible.”
Western Power must complete the work by Friday, February 10.
The £1.6 million regeneration project was completed in August.
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Thursday, February 9, 2012 at 02:01 PMThanks to Chris Edwards for reporting this ‘repair work’. The ‘New’ Streetworks Act has been law since 1st January 1993; the watchdog for this act in Grantham is supposedly the LCC Highways Dept. who from the state of many pedestrian areas in Grantham has been lax in this function. Regarding the new improved Market Place and Westgate pedestrian areas the question needs to be asked will SKDC allow heavy trucks and equipment to be used by the fairground during the mid-lent fair on these areas?. If so will the showman’s guild be charged to repair any damage that this may create, or will damage just be left as in the past for the public to trip up on.
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