Westminster Road, outside cemetery gate

A very large and deep puddle forms here every time it rains heavily, several times in the last few weeks already. This is dangerous because people come down Westminster Road quickly and the puddle is on a corner, so they have little time to react and there is a risk that if two cars approach quickly at the same time there will be an accident as they are both swerving unpredictably to avoid the water and each other. This deep water forms because there are a lot of trees on Westminster Rd and the drains block up every year at this time. There needs to be more regular sweeping of the road, plus an ANNUAL programme of unblocking the grids in November when the leaves have fallen but are still fresh and have not rotted and filled the gulleys with silt. Anything less than annual gully clearance just allows this problem to return the next year since there are so many leaves. Clearing the gulleys every two or three years is a false economy in this location.