On 28/01/2011 21:24, Tim Morley wrote:
On 25 Jan 2011, at 16:06, Mike Pellatt wrote:
And then there's 2-tier areas. I will gaurantee that most people don't know
whether it's the borough/district council or the county council that's
responsible for a given service.
It's not just the public who don't know.
I phoned the Highways Agency a few weeks ago to report a dead deer in the road.
It turned out the road in question was looked after by Cambridge County
Council, so they put me through to them. When I explained the problem to the
County Council, they said that although the road itself was under County
Council control, it was South Cambs District Council who took care of cleaning
it, including road kill. So they put me through. When they finally answered, I
was told that the road was the responsibility of the County Council, and
promptly put back through to the person I'd spoken to five minutes previously.
At that point, having paid for a 15 minute call to an 0845 number from my
mobile, I tasked the person who happened to be on the end of the line at that
point to get the message to whoever he thought needed to know, and hung up.
It's even better than that. Or at least it was a few years back. Things
may have changed.
The highway authority (county council in 2-tier areas) is responsible
for dead large animals (like your deer). Environmental Health (ie the
district/borough in 2-tier areas) is respsonsible for dead small animals
(like rodents). I forget whether dogs are just classed as "small" or
whether it really does depend on their size.
I know because when my borough council was an agent for the county on
highways maters, and an audit uncovered that the county had been charged
for clearing up small animals as well as large animals and 75K or so had
to be repaid.
I wonder if fix my street knows this ?? Or if things have changed (he
says hopefully...)
Mike
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