Fix My Street
 

I did a quick search and couldn't find this elsewhere on the forum, so here goes.......

Problems with potholes, dog fouling, open VM cabinets, street lights out etc..

Report it here..

http://www.fixmystreet.com/

Good idea if it works

Re: Fix My Street
 

just tried it :tu: what a great idea

Re: Fix My Street
 

we've a light out on our street - but don't want to tell anyone, we like a bit of gloom in our corner

Re: Fix My Street
 

Specifically for potholes (I have made loads of reports recently as the council can't seem to find them!)


http://www.potholes.co.uk/

Re: Fix My Street
 

THanks for those links. Pot holes drive me crazy.

Re: Fix My Street
 

Depends if the council have any money for pot holes of course. Ours has just squandered £12m on vamping up the town square with a water feature which can only be used in the summer, has caused cracking of the new pavings, and hasn't been used since last August after a couple of months on the go...

Re: Fix My Street
 

Fixmystreet has been running for years but thanks for reminding people about it, very useful site :)

Re: Fix My Street
 

I have sent off several notifictions of potholes to fixmystreet, but haven't had a single email to confirm my email addy so that the complaints get posted on their site and off to the council....

Re: Fix My Street
 

WIth the current roadworks in around Peterborough you can't get to see them anyway!!

Re: Fix My Street
 

Still no confirmation emails... tried another email address too :(

Re: Fix My Street
 

Sounds as good as TFL streets (who maintain the A roads in my area). They spent thousands replacing the pavement on a street near us with a state of the art pavement with different textures near the traffic lights. It was all nice and flat (unlike the pavement it replaced) until three weeks later when they decided that (for the second time in a year) they needed to replace everything on the nearest junction (all the islands, traffic lights, signs and other equipment) and they decided to use the newly laid pavement as a parking place for all the heavy duty builders equipment.

Re: Fix My Street
 

As I understand it, nowadays you can't sue the council for damage caused to your vehicle by a pothole unless they've been told about it. So anything that makes it easier to report them has got to be good.

Re: Fix My Street
 

Some people get round that technicality by claiming the damage was done by a pot hole they put a marker around awaiting repair :)

Re: Fix My Street
 

Always carry a can of spray marker like the council uses for road marking in the boot of your car ;)

Re: Fix My Street
 

Along with the set of 3 Police cones :)