A lot of worry about a fence with no planning permission that is making visibility for cars backing out of parking places, and people crossing the road difficult. However a new dimension as I realise that people in wheelchairs or mobility scooters can see even less because of the height of the fence, for which planning permission has now been applied for. Armed with a borrowed wheelchair and willing to help constituent, we went along. Taking it in turns to sit in the wheelchair and be pushed over the road and back it was quite frightening. We were a third of the way over the road before round the corner could be seen by the person in the wheelchair. It was difficult (impossible for me) getting the wheelchair back onto the pavement by pulling backwards if a vehicle was coming. It would be worse if a pushchair or pram - can hardly expect the baby to look and tell Mum ! I do think that the wheelchair test should be done for every application for a fence or wall near to a dropped kerb. Do you ?
Sorry not the best of photos showing the person looking in the other direction.
Then on to a meeting with a site supervisor where there was too much mud on the road - sweeping brushes out !
Then what I really like doing - suurveys on the doorstep about people's concerns. Whatever high and mighty things people think Councillors do or are - there is nothing to beat genuinely doing some listening !
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