Wasteful & pointless resurfacing of East Dulwich roads?

[tomdhu]

apbremer Wrote:

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> And don't start me on the mad foreign aid budget!

Think how many pot holes could be fixed with our ?10 Billion foreign aid budget. Asa country we borrow from overseas and increase the national debt just to give it away as aid. And much of that aid just ends up in the pockets of crooks and corrupt officials.

Blame it on our old friend Gordon Brown who enshrined the commitment in law. The same Brwon who robbed the pension sector of ?8Bn p.a. to fund his reckless spending.

[Heart108]

kford Wrote:

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> I think it's good. Just waiting for Lyndhurst Way

> to be done, so I don't get any more punctures on

> my bike.

Are you aware of the difference between useful and necessary resurfacing a busy road like Lyndhurst Way - compared with

a luxury resurfacing job, replacing a perfectly serviceable hundred yard access road that is used by only 3 households And surrounded by grass on each side where kids play football etc ? This is literally a private driveway/ footpath that was used every day with no complaint. And they are replacing the short characterful granite pillars that were there for decades with dull boring characterless expensive blocks of big standard road lining.

[JohnL]

mikeb Wrote:

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> Because it's March, just before councils' fiscal

> year end and budgets are "use it or lose it".

> Every year it's the same.

When I worked for the NHS (admittedly way back) it wasn't just use it or lose it, but your budget for next year would be correspondingly reduced if you didn't use all of this years.

[JohnL]

tomdhu Wrote:

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> apbremer Wrote:

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> > And don't start me on the mad foreign aid

> budget!

>

> Think how many pot holes could be fixed with our

> ?10 Billion foreign aid budget. Asa country we

> borrow from overseas and increase the national

> debt just to give it away as aid. And much of that

> aid just ends up in the pockets of crooks and

> corrupt officials.

>

> Blame it on our old friend Gordon Brown who

> enshrined the commitment in law. The same Brwon

> who robbed the pension sector of ?8Bn p.a. to fund

> his reckless spending.

Except it's not all for foreign aid - it's for pushing British interests in a rather imperial way (why do you think corrupt officials get some and British companies get the contracts). Ironically that's what Boris said he wanted to divert aid to .. British Interests ... but that's what it's always been used for Boris :)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/23/uk-colonialism-aid-spending

[sunbob]

I think Piermont Green is a private road and so it would be paid for by residents/owners? For a long time there was a small sign on the lamppost saying private road no parking. The sides of the road get very degraded between the tri (ish) yearly surfacing that they do and keeping them as decent as possible is beneficial to the main road (Peckham rye) which quickly starts to be worn away when excess water is running down Piermont Green.

[Earl Aelfheah]

There are some crazy potholes around at the moment, as a consequence of the recent weather. Particularly big hole in Sydenham Hill

[Sue]

JohnL Wrote:

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> mikeb Wrote:

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> > Because it's March, just before councils'

> fiscal

> > year end and budgets are "use it or lose it".

> > Every year it's the same.

>

> When I worked for the NHS (admittedly way back) it

> wasn't just use it or lose it, but your budget for

> next year would be correspondingly reduced if you

> didn't use all of this years.

Yes,I think for most public sector organisations?

[christgill]

sunbob Wrote:

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> I think Piermont Green is a private road and so it

> would be paid for by residents/owners? For a long

> time there was a small sign on the lamppost saying

> private road no parking...

Southwark Council's road list doesn't have a designation for the road (Public Highway, Private Road etc.) but it does state that it is "Maintained by LBS Env & Leisure Services Dept."

[Heart108]

Heart108 Wrote:

> And they are

> replacing the short characterful granite pillars

> that were there for decades

For the record - I was wrong on the above: they have kept those granite pillars.

I would appreciate a word from James Barber here... who was involved earlier in this thread a few years ago.

Or any other Southwark officials with knowledge of what the costs of the Piermont Green work is and who commissioned it?

[uncleglen]

spider69 Wrote:

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> Vote them out in May.

Good luck with that- there are 13 Lib Dems, 2 Conservative and about 48 Labour members on the Southwark council and since we have a Conservative government then the Southwark residents will just have to get used to being shoved around and it being blamed on so-called 'tory cuts'- because of local democracy ALL the money that comes from central government can be used in any way that the Council chooses....and you can bet said tax payers' money will NOT be used primarily to improve our quality of life

[macutd]

Well! I wish they would resurface my road.