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Serious damage to grass verges.
Sent to Oxfordshire County Council less than a minute later. FixMyStreet ref: 8904506.
I have contacted Cherwell Council about the damage to grass verges and the non resident parking of vehicles in Buckingham Crescent. They replied they do nothing and provided your contact details. My first long view photo shows the state of the grass verge in front of my house. It looks unlikely to recover and ever be mown. I've noticed the tree planting on the Buckingham road by Domino pizza. Is it possible to have trees planted on the grass verges indicated as I believe it would solve the problem. Either that or remove the grass verges completely to create parking spaces. I imagine lines and parking enforcement would be difficult to implement.
Council ref: ENQ261083860
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Thank you for your enquiry. This issue has been passed onto the relevant team for investigation.
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Its now February 26th. This photo was taken this morning. The grass verges continue to be used as parking spaces, along with vehicles causing an obstruction on the road at varying times of day. The run down look of Buckingham crescent, now seems to be encouraging fly tipping as well. Please can something be done to deal with these problems.. This is the view outside my house every day.
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Could you kindly update me on the progress of your investigation? The non resident parking continues along with the dangerous footpath obstruction and damage to grass verges. I've cleared the fly tipping away myself, but Buckingham crescent still looks a mess when compared to adjacent and nearby roads. The photo taken from a video too large to send, shows how difficult it is now for refuse collectors and their vehicle, which can no longer be turned around.
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Thank you for your report. This issue could be resolved by the instillation of bollards along the grass verge. We must state that these works will need to be funded by residents. This is unfortunately a common issue in towns and urban areas, as a council we cannot stop or prosecute MOP's who park on verges. To clarify, we have not funded the instillation for new bollards for a few years now due to budgets and funding. Another option is for you to contact your local Town or Parish Council to see if they will be willing to fund these bollards.
If self-funded instillation this is something you would like to consider, then please email a request for a bollard quote through to our Highways Enquiries team and this will be passed to the appropriate team to process and respond to you.
Highway.Enquiries@Oxfordshire.gov.ukAnother option would be to contact your local town or Parish Council and suggest they make a formal request to our Schemes team for yellow lining in this area if there are not already lines in place. Sorry we cannot be more help.
Kind regards
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