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Reading Borough Council..WHAAAAAT??
The road where I live is pretty near the town centre. Look out of the back window and you see the Civic Offices. For donkey’s years now there has been a serious subsidence problem all around the area due to disused underground chalk mines.
A Street about 400 yards away had to be evacuated several years ago and houses demolished because one day a massive hole appeared, swallowing at least one residence.
Since then, the council have supposedly done check to establish that the area is indeed safe to live in. BUT! In our street, we keep having dips and holes appearing for no apparent reason. Some a foot deep will just ‘appear’ as if by magic. One minute the road looks fine, the next we have a serious looking hole.
Each time, the council are phoned and nothing gets done. So, we have to phone the police who THEN get onto ‘The Highways Agency’ who send out a team of ‘bodgers’ to simply ‘fill’ the hole with some old rubble and a bit of stale tarmac.
Now it doesn’t take a genius to know that there’s something extra-ordinary going on here. But rather than take responsibility, and possibly spend a few quid to be sure. Our wonderful council will wait until a MAJOR accident or occurance happens and the deny ANY knowledge of the problem.
WHAAAAAAT?? Exactly. And they wonder why they ALMOST lost control at the recent local elections. (YES! It is a labour ‘local government’)
NOW! Just to give us Reading residents a very SHARP lesson in ‘Who’s In Charge Around Here’. The main Government itself has stepped in to DENY us of a much looked forward to developement of the Station Approach area. The planners agreed it BEFORE the elections, but mysteriously now, the BIG honcho’s in London have decided we need a slap on the wrist for being so naughty and almost voting all their cronies OUT!
Poor old John Madejski must be ruing the day he stood next to Rob Wilson for a photo-shoot that got published in the papers. It’s his company ‘Sackville’ who are doing the development. (Coincedence? Not with THIS government).
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