ROADS, PAVEMENTS & COUNCIL HOUSING

We contacted the City Council’s various departments regarding the state of the roads, and after walking round the area  with various people they agreed that our roads were in a pretty bad shape and needed resurfacing.  

 

A year or two later we asked them again about the pavements and after a tour round the streets they agreed that these pavements required attention. Every pavement was resurfaced and new drainage channels put in. Unfortunately these drainage channels are not as good as we had hoped as they pop off whenever a car goes over the edge of the pavements. They also need to be cleared out very often which residents could do but are often neglected resulting in them blocking up with debris.

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After attending meetings to hear about the Council’s plans for modernising their houses we came to the conclusion that The Meadows was always near the bottom of the list for such work and each year the council ran out of funds so we never seemed to get housing improvements in this area.

 

After contacting the appropriate departments and getting no satisfaction we wrote to our MP Lilian Greenwood and met with her and the director of housing at Nottingham City Homes. We explained that some of our council houses had had no work or improvements done on them for many years and asked why we were always at the back end of the list when some properties were in really bad shape. The end result was that the following year work on the Decent Homes project was eventually done to the council houses in our area.