Pothole

Updates

• Thank you for your report, this is now being investigated. Information on our services and the timeframes we aim to respond in can be found: http://www.bromley.gov.uk/ fixservices

  State changed to: In progress

  Posted by Bromley Council at 12:01, Thu 22 December 2022

• Our contractor has been notified to take the appropriate action.

  Posted by Bromley Council at 12:16, Fri 23 December 2022

• We are sorry that this work has not yet been completed. We are working with our Minor Works contractor in an effort to resolve this issue.

  Posted by Bromley Council at 14:10, Wednesday 1 February 2023

• Appropriate action has been taken to resolve the issue.

  State changed to: Fixed

  Posted by Bromley Council at 11:33, Tuesday 7 February 2023

• Our contractor has been notified to take the appropriate action.

  State changed to: In progress

  Posted by Bromley Council at 13:05, Tuesday 14 February 2023

• The order for this repair has been raised with the Council's contractor and remains outstanding within their planned schedule of works.

  Posted by Bromley Council at 14:24, Tuesday 21 February 2023

• Please bear with us. These works are still outstanding with our Minor Works contractor and will be completed soon.

  Posted by Bromley Council at 14:01, Thursday 30 March 2023

• A suggestion for Bromley Council: Seeing as these mythical contractors of whom you speak seem reluctant to do any work, maybe you could reapportion some of the £2.5 million you've made from yellow box fines over just the past 12 months, and offer that to them: it might hurry them up a bit? Or use just a tiny fraction of the huge increase in council tax you've imposed on everyone in the borough? You have the means to pay, we know that. So there's clearly an endemic failing within the council in terms of putting the necessary motions in place to get these serious road hazards fixed. In any case, this has all been screen grabbed and will be used as evidence when the inevitable serious accident happens due to Bromley Council's abject dereliction of duty. Such incidents are preventable with the appropriate remedial action; you are consistently failing to take that action. Nobody wants there to be an accident (this is why we keep reporting these issues to you - and being ignored!) - but it's inevitable now, as there are countless hazardous potholes throughout the borough, which are being left to worsen for months and months - and so It's going to be important to have all of the dates and information to hand, to prove negligence on the part of the council when needed. I hope this record of neglect can also be used by motorists to cross-charge the council for any damage to vehicles caused by potholes. I'll be sharing this on the appropriate local forums and social media groups so that it can be used for any claims against the council.

  Posted anonymously at 23:41, Tuesday 25 April 2023

• Bromley Council, please advise how we can get a specific update on this, rather than just copy-and-paste template responses, which we know are being rolled out as a delaying tactic. Do we need to submit a freedom of information request to find out which contractors you use and what timescales have been discussed / set in place? This has gone on for way too long now and it needs to be escalated: you need to provide some transparency in terms of timescales because residents aren't willing to put up with this any longer.

  Posted anonymously at 14:24, Thursday 27 April 2023

• More info here for anyone that wants to follow it up: the council uses JB Riney as a contractor - you can contact them for an update via enquiries@jbriney.co.uk. And if you want to make a formal complaint and / or register your concerns with the council re this pothole and others in the area, you can do so by emailing csc@bromley.gov.uk. They have to respond within five days. The more people that contact them, the more chance we have of getting these issues fixed. Sadly, it looks like people power / pressure is the only route left now: the fact we pay millions in council tax on top of all the funding they've been granted from government to fix these issues is having no effect.

  Posted anonymously at 15:19, Thursday 27 April 2023

• Thank you for your further comments regarding this issue. Bromley are aware of the significant volume of works raised and outstanding with our contractor and we are continuing to monitor and liaise with them over this outstanding schedule of works. Our Officers are not able to give precise timeframes to individual jobs at this moment but are continuing to undertake regular safety inspections and check any reported issues. We will continue to work with our contractor to ensure that all outstanding jobs are addressed as quickly as they are able.

  Posted by Bromley Council at 14:37, Thursday 4 May 2023

• Stop posting these copy/paste responses; we know by now that this isn't going to get repaired. This report is five months old. Five months! You should be really ashamed of yourselves. Just a matter of time now until the council is publicly outed for its failings.

  Posted anonymously at 15:37, Thursday 4 May 2023