IN reply to Fred Stanley’s estate is ignored letter, which appeared in the Advertiser on August 1.

As a resident who has lived in King George Close the last 12 years, I am in agreement with his comments regarding the lack of maintenance of the estate in general and in particular the so-called grass verges. There are pot holes, deep ruts and balding spots on most of them where cars and vans park and they have become unsightly. Now I don’t blame drivers for parking on them because if they did not and parked correctly in the road, it would cause obstructions to vehicles like fire engines and buses and other much larger vehicles and obstruction to people’s drives. When the estate was built back in the late 1930s there certainly was not the amount of vehicles using it as there is today.

The council-employed grass cutters certainly cannot cut the grass on these verges when vehicles are parked on them and I have certainly seen no repairs being done as it would just be a waste of money and time.

I have mentioned this fact to Chris Bloore, our local councillor, who agrees that they would be better taken up and tarmaced over.

The argument he is getting against is that they serve as a soak away which in my opinion is just rubbish. They are that compacted that the water just runs off or lays stagnating in the ruts and holes. It would certainly improve the look of the area if the grass verges were taken up completely once and for all. They certainly don’t help soaking away anything when my frontage and road gets flooded.

I’m sure most residents would quite happily sign a petition to see these unsightly verges removed and improve the look of the area where we live.

No grass, no so-called maintainence and grass cutting costs reduced.

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