Councillor Lee Steptoe has called for SKDC to be more proactive on the Earlsfield estate after walking around the Welland/Tamar Court area with a highly frustrated resident.
He said, ‘I was shocked by what I saw: massive overhanging bushes along the pathway next to the Bluecoat Meres Academy, trees blocking out street lights, rubbish, glass and graffiti, an open cable box, tyres in the road. All this is preventing my constituent’s wife from getting around on her disability scooter, a situation further not helped by no dropped kerbs in sight.’
‘As these issues are the shared responsibility of SKDC and Lincs CC, it is high time that the most deprived ward in the district gets the investment it is crying out for after years of neglect from Conservative administrations.’
‘There is no easy answer to these issues and some are caused by anti-social behaviour from a tiny minority, but it is time for SKDC to take a lead. The estate’s Labour councillors aim to establish a local forum in the new year, which in the absence of a parish council, will listen to and lobby on local priorities.’
Some of the complaints raised are clearly caused by the residents.