Fixed
Windrush, Upper Bristol Road, Clutton
Reported via desktop in the Dangerous road surface (including ice, mud, spillage or debris) category by David Morrison at 15:17, Fri 17 February 2023 using FixMyStreet Pro
Sent to Bath and North East Somerset Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 4241655.
Hole in Road. It has been repaired three times before.
THIS IS URGENT, it would be better that you had inspected it as you know this is a recurring problem that will not be sorted in any meaningful way until the storm water pipe taking the road drainage across is rebedded. Just filling the hole in means the lorries re compact the surface causing more rumbling noises (while the hole is there the noise and house shaking is abated), which keeps us awake all night for many nights as it bounces on the pipe below and the pipe on the previous road surface below (see history of road raising).
However the risk to highway users is now much greater and waiting for your inspection to pick it up may never happen (I reported it to your Ward Councillor for Clutton 10 days after your advert in BANES magazine about how good highway inspections are).
If you just fill more material in it breaks up again and gathers under the pipe and slowly pushes the pipe up towards the surface, undulating the road. Then the surface breaks again relieving the pressure on the surface and it is all pleasantly quiet at night, then the hole just gets bigger and bigger. The ground then reverberates to the vehicle movements shaking my house more, you can the see the visual cracks appearing in my property should you wish. It is difficult (as per your request not to be critical of others) when consistent the same approach is taken again and again at repair (the three patches are visible) is carried out when it clearly doesn’t work, then seems to me to be a Health and Safety issue to address as the hole that exists now is the same as the one that existed when the surface first failed after the trench was put across the road. However, thank you for dealing with this swiftly.
Updates
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Thank you for your report, it will be reviewed by the appropriate team.
State changed to: In progress
Posted by Systems Team at 15:17, Fri 17 February 2023
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We have looked into this issue and found it is not the council's responsibility. We have passed this report to the relevant party to take action.
State changed to: not the council's responsibility
Posted by Systems Team at 11:10, Mon 20 February 2023
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Thank you for your report, it will be reviewed by the appropriate team.
State changed to: In progress
Posted by Systems Team at 09:03, Fri 17 March 2023
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Thank you to your team who yesterday filled in some of the collapsed service trench. This repair though has created yet another uneven profile of the surface and even more noise and rumbling throughout the night where lorry axles are tipped on a camber at the same time as the step into the remaining as yet unlevelled part of the trench. Please can a proper repair of the drainage pipe below and the road surface be made soon. It is not acceptable to have to put up with the constant pounding and subsequent noise and shaking of the house as a result throughout the night of a failed road drainage protect. Thank you, I appreciate your help.
Posted anonymously at 07:19, Fri 2 June 2023
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We have resolved this issue. If this issue reoccurs please log a new report.
State changed to: Fixed
Posted by Systems Team at 10:48, Mon 18 September 2023
This report is now closed to updates from the public. You can make a new report in the same location.