Potholes close to junction with wimborne way

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 06:12, Tue 21 March 2023

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

  Posted by Bromley Council at 11:31, Wed 5 April 2023

• It's over a month on and nothing has been done about these: They are getting much worse. When there's a fatality due to cars / cyclists swerving to avoid them, I hope this report can be used to hold the council accountable.

  Posted anonymously at 11:33, Tue 25 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 11:42, Tue 25 April 2023

• Maybe you could pay the contractors some of the £2.5 million you've made from yellow box fines (of which the yellow box in this EXACT location was in the top two) this past year? That might hurry them up a bit? In any case, this has all been screen grabbed and will be used as evidence when an accident inevitably happens here due to Bromley Council's negligence and dereliction of duty.

  Posted anonymously at 22:54, Tue 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 14:26, Thu 27 April 2023

• More info here for anyone that wants to follow it up: the council uses JB Riney as a contractor, 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 15:08, Thu 27 April 2023

• Bromley council someone is going to die as a result of your negligence. this pothole is now a genuine risk to life - it was reported two months ago; you acknowledged it then and said your contractors would sort it.....and nothing has been done. it's now a genuine risk to life. you are going to get sued,

  Posted anonymously at 13:37, Mon 1 May 2023

• Bromley Council, please provide an update on this. The road needs to be shut now really, as this is such a hazard. If you cannot deal with it, who do we escalate this to?

  Posted anonymously at 19:38, Wed 3 May 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 19:42, Wed 3 May 2023

• Does anyone know how we can escalate this? Bromley Council aren't fit for purpose and the road is literally crumbling and caving in. It could have been fixed easily when it was first reported but now the potholes have merged and there are huge craters in the road. It needs urgent attention before someone dies as a result of cars swerving to avoid it. Anyone know how we go over the council to get it fixed?

  Posted anonymously at 23:41, Wed 3 May 2023

• This road has now totally crumbled. How awful that it could have been easily fixed two months ago but it's been left to disintegrate. I feel so sad now to live in this borough; it used to be amazing up until very recently: what changed, does anyone know?

  Posted anonymously at 12:22, Mon 8 May 2023

• Bromley Council you will be 100% responsible when someone is seriously injured as a result of these potholes. They were reported in March. They've been repeatedly reported at regular intervals since as they've been left to get worse and worse and worse. It's now May and you're still doing nothing. You should be so deeply ashamed of yourselves. Please god don't reply to this with yet another template response saying your contractor is working on it: we all know by now that that's a lie.

  Posted anonymously at 12:35, Mon 8 May 2023

• Maybe use some of this cash to pay for it...? (In today's Daily Mail.) https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ news/ article-12062603/ The-single-yellow-box-makes-London-council-1M-fines.html

  Posted anonymously at 11:14, Tue 9 May 2023

• Update needed.

  Posted anonymously at 21:20, Mon 15 May 2023

• Over two months now and this is now catastrophic

  Posted anonymously at 19:19, Tue 30 May 2023

• Various potholes on the street. TFL does not fix this road according to their website and it is council to make the repairs.

  Posted anonymously at 13:53, Wed 31 May 2023

• Council have been aware since March; they're doing nothing. It's really really dangerous now.

  Posted anonymously at 18:20, Wed 31 May 2023

• Bromley Council you need to give a specific date for when this is going to be fixed. Now. It's been three months since it was reported. Residents' patience with you has run out. You need to act or we will fix it ourselves.

  Posted anonymously at 12:23, Sun 4 June 2023

• Update needed.

  Posted anonymously at 21:10, Tue 6 June 2023

• You are referred to LBB's previous reply, above: 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. Works have been raised to address the potholes in this locale. The reporter is strongly advised NOT to attempt any unauthorised works to the public highway.

  Posted by Bromley Council at 13:55, Tue 27 June 2023

• Any plans to fix this this year ?

  Posted anonymously at 13:13, Sat 8 July 2023

• Just checking - when I have to get my car tyres fixed due to damage caused by these severely damaged road surfaces who do I submit my claims to at Bromley Council? My personal view is that the whole section between Tesco Elmers End and the Elmers End roundabout needs to be completely resurfaced and NOT just have a patchwork of poor repairs done - just as they always are! It's probably because it's a major route that they won't do it.

  Posted anonymously at 12:30, Thu 13 July 2023

• Any request for compensation relating to an issue on a Bromley maintained highway must be processed via an insurance claim process. Bromley currently have a shared Insurance Service with Sutton Council and an online claim form can be completed and submitted via Sutton’s website: https://www.sutton.gov.uk/ info/ 200436/ customer_services/ 1146/ insurance_service/ 2

  Posted by Bromley Council at 16:22, Thu 13 July 2023

• This is laughable and the BBC have now been notified.

  Your happy to fix side roads but not a Major road and yet this happens on this stretch every year. Can’t wait to see how you wiggle out of this one !

  Posted anonymously at 00:51, Tue 8 August 2023

• Further works are necessary to resolve the issue and have been scheduled for action.

  Posted by Bromley Council at 08:23, Fri 18 August 2023

• We are aware this work is outstanding and we continue to work with our contractor to ensure this work is completed. Thank you for your patience.

  Posted by Bromley Council at 17:51, Mon 9 October 2023

• Potholes where indicated have been repaired.

  Posted by Bromley Council at 14:44, Thu 26 October 2023

• Some minor works, however, remain outstanding and LBB is working with its Minor Works contractor to address these as soon as possible.

  Posted by Bromley Council at 14:56, Thu 26 October 2023

• Appropriate action has been taken to resolve the issue.

  State changed to: Fixed

  Posted by Bromley Council at 08:39, Thu 16 November 2023