Should i report it?

hwalkerh

We live on a greened area where the houses run perpendicular to the road and it connects at the bottom to a cul-de-sac. I was just in my porch about to leave the house and watched a van drive up the grass from the cul-de-sac down the grassed area and pavement and off the other end onto the road.

The reason i am so annoyed it because we have slabs for the public foot path and it is so hard trying to get the uneven slabs fixed and the van has made it worse, when i walked on they actually moved.

i think i got the number plate but cant be 100% sure that it was right, can i check anyway?
Do you think i should report it to the council or do you think they won't do anything about it anyway?

thanks

bcl999

Yes, report it. We've had similar problems in my area. I once saw a delivery van mount the kerb and drive all the way up our cul-de-sac, half on the paving slabs and have on the grass, looking for the house he wanted to deliver to. I reprted it to the courier company. got a reply saying he denied doing it. At least I felt I had done my part.

sagalout1954

Don't report it direct to your Council, report it to your COUNCILLOR and ask him to investigate options to stop it happening again and request feedback when he's contacted them. You can get his/her email address/phone number/ or surgery time, date, place from your LA website. Find out exactly who he/she will be contacting and suggest Landscape AND Traffic.

When contacted by a Councillor and told to jump, the Council depts response is more likely to be "how high" as opposed to "no money", which is what you'd most likely get.

Perhaps some Ascot fencing might be put in (Council put some across the green outside my Mum's house to stop cars driving down onto it). Chunky, wooden and about 2' high. Unlike the concrete bollards they installed somewhere else, the Ascot fence won't make life very difficult for a fire engine to get to houses at the far end of the green! (Pull it out or ram right through it.)