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White Lion steps between Cliff Hill and Beach Road
Reported in the Pavements/footpaths category anonymously at 08:57, Tue 7 June 2016
Sent to Norfolk County Council 4 minutes later. FixMyStreet ref: 836435.
Four years ago in April there was a wall collapse from a neighbouring construction works that poured mud and stone blocks onto one side of these steps. The council blocked it off and have left it like that, claiming their legal funds are so high that they cannot afford to repair it. A labour workforce should be brought in to clear it, volunteers have been suggested, but still no action from the council. Please fix it. It's spoiling our community.
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Issue has been passed to the East area Highways team for their attention. Thanks Customer Service Centre Norfolk County Council
Posted anonymously at 11:49, Tue 7 June 2016
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Still open, via questionnaire, 14:06, Tue 5 July 2016
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No-one wants to know about this now. Today the top entrance to the steps is overgrown with brambles and plants from both sides of the steps. It is an appalling mess. Trees need to be cut back, gardens to each side are unattended, and the council needs to come and smarten up the area, top and bottom. A work party should be organised to clear the earth and stone, to start with.
Posted anonymously at 14:06, Tue 5 July 2016
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Still open, via questionnaire, 14:38, Tue 2 August 2016
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The problem is worse now; it is overgrown with brambles and buddleagh so that passing by is tricky. There is now graffiti and more rubbish than ever, and it is peak summertime, when tourists are here using it as well as residents. The Admiral Duncan water pump at the bottom is nearly hidden - come on Council, bring in a work party to sort it out.
Posted anonymously at 14:38, Tue 2 August 2016
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Still open, via questionnaire, 18:37, Tue 30 August 2016
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Looks like it will never be fixed by local council funds. It needs a work party of offenders/convicts to come with wheelbarrows and shovels to dig out the earth and bricks that collapsed on to the path. Pure manual work would sort it out, and let both sides of the central rail be open.
Posted anonymously at 18:37, Tue 30 August 2016
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Still open, via questionnaire, 06:44, Wed 28 September 2016
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We have tried to bring this to the attention of our MP but he is staying clear of this issue; maddening because it could be 95% solved with help of a manual workforce team from a different budget
Posted anonymously at 06:44, Wed 28 September 2016
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Still open, via questionnaire, 09:30, Wed 26 October 2016
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Still open, via questionnaire, 12:09, Wed 23 November 2016
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It may never be fixed. The council is tight with no budget, and the 2nd staircase is not important to them. It continues to look a bodge job with rotting hardboard panels to one side and over grown weeds on the other. All this leads to a monument for Admiral Duncan's Well, a tourist attraction.
Posted anonymously at 12:09, Wed 23 November 2016
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The status five years on remains the same. Whilst most has been written as to the causes and part played by the legal proffesion in confounding remedial action, the authorities cannot sit back on their hands continually using the default argument of being cash strapped. Whilst the area has been stabilised with no further remedial action, the authorities should look beyond to restoring to the original costly specifications and explore other options, such as the example here of Cliff Lane access steps
Posted by Steve Taylor at 08:45, Fri 5 May 2017
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How it is these days (May 2017) with rubbish and graffiti strewn down the entire site: an uncared for mess, abandoned by the council. I think they could organise a work party to clear it of the earth and breeze blocks easily. Underneath the brambles and buddleagh there is nothing sinister, and there's no more to collapse on to it, so it should be safe to walk there once again. Community workers should be given the job, free to the council - why not? And when the steps are clear, it would only require a little repair work to a railing, and that's it, sorted. Not hundreds of thousands of pounds, as they are saying now.
Posted anonymously at 16:13, Fri 5 May 2017
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