Footpath at the side of Woodley Primary school, Station Road/Sherwood Road
Dear Stockport Borough Council,
I have been contacted by parents of young children regarding the dangerous state of the footpath at the side of Woodley Primary School. I believe the matter has been reported to local councillors in April 2010. What action, if any, was taken as a result of this matter being raised, as people are telling me the situation is unchanged and they are particularly concerned as winter is here now and there was a problem last year with the ice.
Mr. Agellu, I am more than happy to put you in contact by telephone with the local residents who have raised this issue with me because they are getting nowhere with the Council. If nothing has been done for a good reason, there should be a note somewhere of what that reason is
Yours faithfully,
Sheila
Dear Mrs Oliver,
Thank you for your request for information which has been given reference
5037. Please quote this on any correspondence regarding your request.
Stockport Council will respond to your request within 20 working days. If
there will be a charge for disbursements e.g. photocopying in order to
provide the information, we will inform you as soon as possible to see if
you wish to proceed; however such charges are usually waived if they
amount to less than £10.
Yours sincerely,
Corporate Information Services
Stockport Council
Town Hall
Stockport
SK1 3XE
alan m dransfield (Account suspended) left an annotation ()
Congratulation Mrs Oliver, SBC are NOT treating this request as VEXATIOUS.I wonder why that is?
Sheila Oliver (Account suspended) left an annotation ()
Mr Dransfield
Local people have tried and tried to get this sorted out over a long period of time. There is money for the Leader of the Council to stay in a 5 star hotel in Salford - Salford! There is money for senior council officers to stay in luxury hotels and to drive Mini Cooper S Cabriolets, top of the range BMWs and Audi TTs, but there is no money, apparently, to deal with what local people perecieve to be a dangerous footpath around a primary school.
Dear Mrs Oliver,
I am writing in response to your request for information below (Ref 5037).
The response to your request has been prepared by the relevant Council
service and is as follows:
The adopted highway is inspected periodically for safety issues and any
actionable defects are repaired in line with Council policy.
We do not currently have any plans to carry out major work on the footways
however the steps on the footpath between Sherwood Road and Station Road
do need repair and we are currently preparing costs for this work.
If you are unhappy with the way we have handled your request for
information, you are entitled to ask for an internal review; however you
must do so within 40 working days of the date of this response. Any
internal review will be carried out by a senior member of staff who was
not involved with your original request. To ask for an internal review,
contact [1][email address] in the first instance.
If you are unhappy with the outcome of any internal review, you are
entitled to complain to the Information Commissioner. To do so, contact:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
[2]www.ico.gov.uk
01625 545 745
Yours sincerely,
Corporate Information Services
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
Dear FOI Officer,
Yay! So my troublesome questioning gets a result for local people when their appeals to the local councillors since April 2010 fell on deaf ears. Unless, of course, it is pure coincidence that flagging up the matter on this site and the contemporaneous plans for work on the steps coincided.
Yours sincerely,
Sheila Oliver
alan m dransfield (Account suspended) left an annotation ()
Cost should not be CONSIDERED BEFORE the works is done on safety groundS. The SBC have the cart before the horse on this particular issue.
They should assign emergency works and THEN assign the cost.
Strikes me the SBC dont take health and safety seriously.
Another example of Tardy H&S ISSUE IS THE REOPENING OF VALE VIEW SCHOOL before THE root cause HAS BEEN PUBLISHED.
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alan m dransfield (Account suspended) left an annotation ()
In light of the poor track record by the SBC,I strongly recommend you to take pleny of photographs of of the Footpath Dangers.Make sure the camera has a date stamp