...being driven/parked on them.
Put all your examples of pavement damage here.
Lochrin Place - used as an illegal parking lot by constructors:
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Pavement damage caused by motors...
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Posted 7 years ago #
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That's not vehicles that's poor reinstatement by utilities who have destroyed the load spreading structure of the road foundations and piled in type 1 aggregate which can migrate down (and out) into the surrounding soils if just dumped into the trench (but that's what the council spec allows)
Posted 7 years ago # -
The contractors CCG Construction drove cranes and large heavily laden flat bed lorries over this footpath for months destroying a large number of the paving slabs. They have now bodged it rather than replacing what they have damaged. Building Futures indeed!
Posted 7 years ago # -
@Tuylar.
Sure, it looks like the underlying weakness in the first pic is due to poor backfilling by contractors.
Ultimately though, it was cars and vans being driven on to an area that is for pedestrians/cycles only that has caused the tiles to sink.
Posted 7 years ago # -
But of course. After all the public purse will pick up the tab if/when the Meadows to Canal route goes through there. Or pigs fly. Whichever comes first.
Posted 7 years ago # -
I must try to remember to take a shot of the shattered, trip-hazard that once was a pavement outside Sainsbury's Local on Bernard Street.
Regularly parked on by delivery artics and customer vehicles, the paving has been well and truly wrecked.
Posted 7 years ago # -
I don't understand how that store was ever allowed; it has nowhere in 100 yards for legal parking of delivery lorries. I rarely go past without there being a lorry parked there (and outside the florists further along).
Posted 7 years ago # -
Me neither, @mgj
Surely the availability of safe & legal delivery lorry parking and customer parking must have to be considered when planning permission is being sought?
Posted 7 years ago # -
Off peak loading appears to be permitted directly outside: https://goo.gl/maps/MPYdA1MB84p
Hopefully using the pavement to do so will soon be banned however.
Posted 7 years ago # -
Lochrin Place was being taken up again last week, presumably in order to be put back better, unless they were just rootling about with the pipes some more.
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