| Topic: | Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:LAMMAS PARK “DRAINAGE” PROJECT IS NOW A WETLAND!! | |
| Posted by: | Raymond Havelock | |
| Date/Time: | 17/02/26 11:01:00 |
| Pretty much all of older parts of Ealing have had minimal if any proper infrastructural maintenance for nearing 50 years. Street tree roots, proper tree pruning, Paving, kerbstones, drain gulleys, soakaways are in an appalling state of neglect. Badly placed sign posts and clutter. Bike shelters now a harbour for vermin and again not swept out or cleaned. Maintenance is never factored in or if it is not overseen to any degree of satisfactory. Repairs are sub standard with blobs of Tar which being lightweight simply allow tree roots to lift, splitting the surface within weeks. Pure folly. When works are carried out it's to a third rate standard. Several examples from the last 12 months. Replacement of gutter drain covers in a South Ealing Street. Replacing cast grates that are less than 20 years old, Why? Replacements installed up to 2 inches higher than the gutter fall. All gulleys and kerbs were built to have a slight fall towards the gutter or a soaraway and pavements the same from boundary to the kerb. I note that many have been relaid level. The worst though is the widened pavements at the E2/3 Bus Stop between Julien Road and Wellington Road. The extensively relaid pavement is level towards properties leaving a pool of water too deep to walk through. The extended bit falls the wrong way causing rainwater to run across the pavement and soaking properties in heavy rain. But the fall to the gutter drain is also compromised so the kerbside pools resulting in isolated passengers who have to stand on the outer edge of the pavement get soaked by even the bus slowly pulling up. Again, the drain grate is higher then the now impeded fall of does not do its job and drain the water. Needless to say, kids on bikes take delight in riding through this soaking passengers who are mainly elderly. Mount Carmel kids are terrible for this with parents not taking responsibility. I did this myself once and word got the the then headmistress - Woe betide that experience. Probably why I am so aware of failings such as this. Culmington Road is also another mess up. One would have thought that the mess up of 20+ years ago would have been corrected but no it is now worse. The black ice of a few weeks ago with anything with wheels or shoes on were in peril. But it too is now a quagmire and dangerous with fallen and surplus Lime Bikes blocking the whole of the footway and riders collecting or returning riding along the pavement in all directions. How is that safer? How much did all this cost? Who approved without pragmatic understanding? Why are pragmatic details and potential problems not presented to both residents or elected councillors - (most of who think shelves are put up by apps in any case.) And why is it not overseen and faults corrected? As for Lammas Park/ Just walked through, areas with dozens of fissures and pools in a part that I cannot recall seeing in any bad weather period ever over nearing 50 years of walking through it daily since primary school. Scandalous vandalism and even worse that they have cynically used 'climate and wilding' to justify it. Tarnishes the huge amounts of real work that has been done elsewhere, mainly by volunteers over many decades. |