Dear Sir,
Following on from the recent articles concerning pavement parking:
I have lived in Oakfield for over 30 years now and it is soul destroying to see the area going downhill and becoming downright scruffy at a great rate due to inconsiderate and sometimes just lazy parking and fly tipping. The grass is absolutely disgraceful & ruined due to people parking their vehicles on it regularly even though it is saturated due to all the rainfall and snow melt we have had recently. It is becoming nothing but a quagmire.
People say they get on the grass as there is nowhere else to park, due to taxis parking all over the place (which they do), taking up designated parking spaces and also up on the pavements making it difficult and sometimes impossible for disabled scooters to get past safely.
Even when there are spaces available, some people automatically park on the grass as if it is their right to do so and usually it is the same offenders.
Two different individuals even regularly park their work vans – Bedford size vans, on the grass or on the pavement right on the bend causing it to be a blind bend for drivers and an accident waiting to happen.
Apart from the parking issues, the fly tipping is ridiculous with the same offenders dumping their rubbish under a tree and expecting somebody to take it away, even though they have cars and could take it to the tip.
The fly tipping is a regular occurence and we’ve had everything from tables, lumps of wood, TV’s and cabinets dumped.
A set of drawers were dumped recently and lay there for almost a month before they were moved. At the time of writing this, there are two single mattresses under the tree.
What used to be a lovely area is quickly becoming downright scruffy.
Yours faithfully
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