| Topic: | Lammas Park Why all the misleading and Deception? | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 20/11/24 10:05:00 |
| New posters have appeared in Lammas Park. They still do not explain in any detail the rationale for the failed works. They still do not have a single name of anyone in charge. The pictures though are hugely misleading. They show " Flooding in and Ealing Street" The pictures are actually the flooding in and around two 'Speed tables" in Church Lane/ Culmington Road. In actuality the cause of the flooding dates back to the installation some years ago of the traffic calming speed tables - which serve their purpose. But the construction of these blocked the fall of rainwater to the drains and caused problems from day one. The road rises slightly after the Junctions of Elers Road and Lammas Park Gardens and the rainfall cannot soak away as the Drains are the wrong side. This has worsened because of two other factors. 1.The drains have not been routinely descaled for decades ( They used to be done every 10 years by a local company based in Derwent Yard ). I know this for sure as it was one of my first student summer jobs ) Simple rudimentary stuff but highly effective. 2. The huge trees produce a lot of leaves which are not dealt with and full the galleys and rot and again block water flow and drains up. This is a problem locally around the parks. The roots have disturbed the level flows of the gullies. Again something that form time to time is easily remedied. Does it really take huge earthworks to remedy a lack of basic urban maintenance? Why use misleading pictures with the very cause in the pictures? Water unable to reach the drains The third Picture shows a flooded western end of the park. This was in winter and after a very long dry period. A very heavy rainstorm caused this and it was no more than water logged - just like a level playing field. It took longer to drain away as it was much colder in that period. Theres used to be a slightly boggy area no more than a few metres in diameter near there that was down to a leak from an inspection chamber. Fact is Lammas Park has had minimal maintenance since the 1960s. Always the poor relation to Walpole Park which was looked after really well. Lammas Park has lost a lot of it's once equally good amenities to free and open access to all, but it at least remained a very safe park for children to play in, be it sport or the swings or the long gone adventure playground. That is no longer even a consideration. Boggy Water and Playground? Irritant fauna and biting insects? Why do you think Victorian Parks were created? Especially when surrounded by open meadows? Because they were made to be safe and healthy places. With this bird brained scheme which has no evidence of proper risk or impact assessments is frankly, shameful and those behind it ought to be made accountable. But putting pictures with misleading captions is stooping to the level of regimes that this nation fought to quell. Tell the truth. And explain everything properly. And produce the independent risk assessments. |