A COUNCILLOR says work to repair a Lichfield footpath shows the importance of people raising concerns with their local representatives.
Cllr Jacob Marshall, Leomansley ward representative at Lichfield City Council and candidate for Lichfield City South in the forthcoming Staffordshire County Council elections, said the issue had been raised by a resident at an advice surgery.
Councillors then liaised with the parks officer who carried out a review and then arranged for resurfacing of the footpath off Ivanhoe Road to take place.
Cllr Marshall said:
“Responding to residents’ needs is a really rewarding part of being a councillor and a core part of our local democracy.
“Please, if you have practical local issues that you think your councillor can help with do visit us at our Labour councillor surgery on the last Saturday of each month at The Hub at St Mary’s.”
Nice that the footpath has been redone and I know it’s not the councils responsibility for the roads but Ivanhoe Road is in shocking condition. Shame there wasn’t a legal obligation for the Highways to make good within a fixed timeframe.
Have any Cllrs. walked down Tamworth Street recently. The footpaths are not only appalling and unsightly but a dangerous trip hazard with nearly every paving slab sitting proud or loose and I’m sure there are many other areas in the same condition. An accident waiting to happen. The council responsible should be ashamed. You keep spouting about what a lovely historic city we live in but do little to maintain such areas. We expect better.
It’s a pity just filling in the form on the Staffordshire Council website isn’t enough.
I wonder what the councillor actually did other than forward an email/pass on a message to the council? I’ll wager it wasn’t much, but they’ll milk it for all its worth as there’s an election coming, and only your Labour councillors can sort this kind of thing out don’t you know…
“Freddie’s” comments are very apt.
Sadly, I suspect that 90% of the citizenry have very little awareness of how to interact with the 2 significant public bodies that look after most of the infrastructure that surrounds us. Bellyaching to an elected representative is so much easier than actually connecting with the websites of those public bodies where there is easy access to progressing items of infrastructure and service concern. Public representatives themselves are invariably astonished how citizenry are so poorly switched on, and so end up using those same on-line facilities to progress the concerns that the public have access to.