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kinetic747

kinetic747

kinetic747

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Bit of a rant regarding new housing next to existing roads. Who is responsible for the quality of road repairs after it has been dug up for utilities etc? They have a habit of turning a decent surface into little more than a farm track with sunken manholes and poorly filled drainage channels. It drives me mad every time I drive over a poorly finished surface. :mad:
 
kinetic747 said:
Bit of a rant regarding new housing next to existing roads. Who is responsible for the quality of road repairs after it has been dug up for utilities etc? They have a habit of turning a decent surface into little more than a farm track with sunken manholes and poorly filled drainage channels. It drives me mad every time I drive over a poorly finished surface. :mad:
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The company who does the digging is required to ensure the resurfaced works are good for I think 5 years.
 
What's the point when someone else will just be along to dig it up again shortly, if the roads around here are anything to go by.
 
Usually a third party company that specialises in core sampling with be assigned from the local council of the area to quality test the reinstatement. If the cores come back as a fail the company that reinstated in the first place will need to go back and re do the work to a suitable standard.

The reinstatments could be done any one company contracted to do the work, Morrison, Clancy Docwra, SGN, etc depending on what utilities were laid.
 
FlakGunna said:
Usually a third party company that specialises in core sampling with be assigned from the local council of the area to quality test the reinstatement. If the cores come back as a fail the company that reinstated in the first place will need to go back and re do the work to a suitable standard.

The reinstatments could be done any one company contracted to do the work, Morrison, Clancy Docwra, SGN, etc depending on what utilities were laid.
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Thanks for the information. Generally, road maintenance is poor in my area (Greater Manchester) with non existent road markings and missing cats eyes, a lethal combination on a wet motorway in the dark.:eek:
 
I know Nottinghamshire county council website had a "report potholes" function via an interactive Google map. You basically click where the trouble is and they fix it (very quickly to be honest), you can also report Street lights that are out as well.

Have you reported the problem OP?
 
LOAM said:
I know Nottinghamshire county council website had a "report potholes" function via an interactive Google map. You basically click where the trouble is and they fix it (very quickly to be honest), you can also report Street lights that are out as well.

Have you reported the problem OP?
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Not yet but I mean to later.:)
 
Yep, our roads are in a disgusting state. They have been for years. Roads are resurfaced on the cheap and end up crumbling after 1-2 years so they do it again.

Wasn't happy when the mrs hit a crater in our 1 month old car and took a chunk out the alloy.

I can see why people buy 4x4s
 
My personal solution to crappy roads

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They really need to shake up the system for utility works / planning. At the minute there's no point in building a decent residential road as a few weeks after completion a utility contractor will rip it back up again and do a poor job patching it.

Need to make it so utility companies work together to get work done at one time or even better get the majority of work done during construction.
 
MonkeyMan said:
They really need to shake up the system for utility works / planning. At the minute there's no point in building a decent residential road as a few weeks after completion a utility contractor will rip it back up again and do a poor job patching it.

Need to make it so utility companies work together to get work done at one time or even better get the majority of work done during construction.
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It's unworkable having such a rule though, you're not ever going to be able to prevent people digging up services to repair them.
 
at least your gas company haven't randomly turned up and dug up part of your drive-way and put this hideous monstrosity at the front of your 100+ year old Victorian house :|

 
Caged said:
It's unworkable having such a rule though, you're not ever going to be able to prevent people digging up services to repair them.
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Possibly but they have had success in getting utility work sped up by increasing the cost of road closures etc, how high would they have to go to get companies scheduling works together (not urgent works obviously).
 
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