ED pavements

[RegularVisitor]

Yesterday the lovely Lordship Lane pavements were covered in puddles of water every few yards! Why? 
What are MPs, local councillors, especially those responsible for pavement maintenance budgets, shopkeepers and residents doing to campaign for annd ensure  upgrades of the dangerous pavements??

I an a regular visitor to family in the area. Pavements are still dangerous when it is not raining, but worse when raining. But why are the lawyers in the various councils responsible not insisting  works are carried out to avoid legal claims from pavement users? 
Why are MPs and Chief executives of the various councils not taking executive action? 
Why are the local newspapers not highlighting the terrible state of the pavements. Why are the local resident associations not taking action? 
WHY?

[Peckhampam]

The answer to your first question is because it had been raining hard.

I live a minute from Lordship Lane-walk down it most days and have never noticed a problem with the pavements.  However the shop keepers you mention are certainly cutting down safe walking space in various ways and bicyclists on the pavement are a hazard.

[Moovart]

2 hours ago, RegularVisitor said:

Yesterday the lovely Lordship Lane pavements were covered in puddles of water every few yards! Why? 
What are MPs, local councillors, especially those responsible for pavement maintenance budgets, shopkeepers and residents doing to campaign for annd ensure  upgrades of the dangerous pavements??

I an a regular visitor to family in the area. Pavements are still dangerous when it is not raining, but worse when raining. But why are the lawyers in the various councils responsible not insisting  works are carried out to avoid legal claims from pavement users? 
Why are MPs and Chief executives of the various councils not taking executive action? 
Why are the local newspapers not highlighting the terrible state of the pavements. Why are the local resident associations not taking action? 
WHY?

The roots of the London Plane trees are causing issues in Lordship Lane as they grow bigger and bigger.  Lovely trees when in the right place but these trees are young and still have a lot of growing today. It was a bad choice of tree for position along the shopping part of lordship lane when Southwark decided to plant them.

It is extremely difficult to get Southwark to maintain these trees eg prune them to a reasonable size on a regular basis so the branches don't tap on flats' windows and rooves; remove them when they cause structural problems such as growing through and damaging an external water pipe (yes that happened) and causing subsidence and sinking of areas of pavements.

I would love to see a proper schedule of maintenance carried out on the plane trees and of the the sinking and uplifting pavements around them but I'm not holding my breath.

The London planes still have a lot of growing to do so I foresee more issues for pavements, shops and flats in the coming years.

[jazzer]

As an ad on, a lot of pavements are covered in dropped leaves, so please take care. 

[Nigello]

6 hours ago, RegularVisitor said:

Yesterday the lovely Lordship Lane pavements were covered in puddles of water every few yards! Why? 
What are MPs, local councillors, especially those responsible for pavement maintenance budgets, shopkeepers and residents doing to campaign for annd ensure  upgrades of the dangerous pavements??

I an a regular visitor to family in the area. Pavements are still dangerous when it is not raining, but worse when raining. But why are the lawyers in the various councils responsible not insisting  works are carried out to avoid legal claims from pavement users? 
Why are MPs and Chief executives of the various councils not taking executive action? 
Why are the local newspapers not highlighting the terrible state of the pavements. Why are the local resident associations not taking action? 
WHY?

Good points

 

 Why not write or talk to the people you mention and see whether you can help make things better? (WHY?) 

[bonaome]

From memory the pavement in from of the shops and restaurants on the east side of LL is actually owned by the leaseholders and Southwark are not responsible for it. Or not for the majority of it. Thus coordination of any repair etc is very hard. 
 

The pavement is very  uneven and puddles have been a problem for years when it rains. I’ve been here 15 years. And it was always an issue.

 

the leaves - they used to get swept up but there’s no money for that now. Personally I’d rather see them spend money on maintaining and cleaning the pavements instead of traffic consultations. I once suggested - when they were canvassing for ideas - that the cleaner greener safer fund could be directed towards keeping the pavements clear and safe but it was carefully explained to me that that isn’t what the fund is for!!!

 

write to whoever you like. Good luck. And I mean that!