Friday 6 November 2009

DANGEROUS WALL ON COTLEIGH GROVE AND THE COUNCILS LACK OF ACTION








For the last 10 years or so the Birmingham City Council have been avoiding taking responsibility for resolving the problem of having a large retaining wall, on the boundary of Cotleigh Grove repaired. The result is as you can see from the photos above the side passage at no 19 Cotleigh Grove is unusable.
Large wood battens have braced the wall for ten years and for most of that time youngsters have used these battens to clime on the wall up to a fence and into land to the rear of it.
The fence is now so damaged that it is a danger to children.
What is the Housing departments reaction to all this? "we don't know who owns the land and are trying to deal with the situation". This has I repeat been going on for ten years.
The very least the Housing department should do is make sure the fence on top of the wall is made safe the whole situation is a disgrace.

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