A resident contacted me yesterday evening to point out that there are currently FOUR street lights out of action on Hexham Road and at least two lampposts have been out of action for four months.
This is clearly completely unacceptable and raises serious issues of the effectiveness of the Council's processes for monitoring street lighting across the Town.
I have contacted officers in RBC who have told me they will flag the street lights for repair urgently with SEC (the contractor) and also ask them for the fault report prepared by SEC's night scout.
The question is, why is SEC and the highways department not picking these faults up more promptly?
We are continuing to receive complaints from residents on the Estate about motorbike nuisance. The latest reports says that young adults (18-19) are riding full size motorbikes around the Estate without helmets. I flagged this at a meeting of the Safer Reading Campaign on Wednesday (of which more later). RBC officers are working with Police to try and improve reporting of these incidents.
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