Blocked street drain

to get this problem fixed you need to contact your local council and find out which department is responsible for it (usually highways) and as for fast food, restaurants, etc pouring oil, fat, rice and worse this is common problem where they dont care and do it anyway. Problem is it blocks te drains and if it floods outside your house its bad news. councils arent interested, fast food places dont care.. public are powerless. only thing you can do is keep reporting it and hope they keep sending out Gully wagon to clean it

All the reports on FixMyStreet.com automatically get forwarded to the relevant local council, Brian, that's the whole point of the site!

Er yeah Brian, are you on drugs? And the public are not "powerless", as we elect the councils. And if the council don't do their job they have a formal complaints procedure, which can be escalated all the way to the Local Government Ombudsman.

I think what I have put was mis-interpreted.. basically just say for example the storm drain outside your house was cleaned today.. then 2 hours later a local fast foodplace pours oil fat down the drain and blocks it up again, the council will come out again but "eventually" as there are thousands of other drains to do as a normal routine. The council are powerless to stop takeaways pouring fat down the grids unless they have an operative outside the drain 365 days a year 24 hours a day monitoring it and if they catch someone.. then what?? Also not just takeaways its also people with new driveways for their car where the builder has brushed sand and cement down the drain which sets,not to mention as well as changing oil on cars and pouring oil down the drain.

Brian, the whole street is covered by CCTV, it is quite easy to see who is pouring cooking oil down the drains. Plus, I've seen them with my own eyes and gave the council a statement as to the guy who did it (who amusingly pretended not to be able to speak English when I accosted him). The council can also make a fastfude joint's life hell with food hygiene inspections etc if they don't behave.

I agree the council can make life difficult for the fast food ventures... once the council have the proof. All we need is CCTV outside every single drain. Also need to monitor it for fast foods outlets, kids throwing rubbish down them, builders and their products, household rubbish with laminate flooring and as well as oggy bags. Doggy bags being the worst (people go to huge effort to clean up their dog mess and then they dump it down someone elses drain which really naffs up the drain as they expand so they get blocked in the main pipeline and then the road has to be dug up. As for proving stuff once you seen someone pouring stuff down drains it is hard to prove unlkess you have witnesses, statements and cctv... wonder what the fine is for pouring fat down the drains as i dont think its illegal. may be wrong though.. is it under flytipping?? let me know that one

It is illegal and fine is £500 or £1000 or something like that.