Guest posting by a South Kilburn resident
It could be a retelling of that old
joke "how many people does it change a light bulb in....", but
sometimes the joke wears a bit thin.
This light (photo) was first reported
to Catalyst and Brent Housing as broken nearly 7 months ago. All that's
happened since is that it has deteriorated.
It is one of a row installed alongside a new path next to Kilburn Park tube station during regeneration and the building of new
flats in the vicinity. There seems to be a desire to give things silly names as
part of regeneration and this short path is apparently a `boulevard'. When the
path was first created it was (not) lit by a series of lights at ground level.
You wouldn't be able to see them in the photo because they are completely
overgrown.
After months of complaining that the
original lights were useless and a dark path had been created, they were
eventually replaced by these better ones.
The broken light was first reported to
Brent and Catalyst Housing Association in April 2017. Catalyst created the path
and Brent tell us they should be responsible for repairing the light. Both have
been repeatedly chased on the issue, including by a local Councillor.
Forget big schemes, better housing etc,
we can't even get a light repaired.
Describes Brent completely!!!!
ReplyDeleteOn a slightly different note but still on the subject of lights I must commend Brent Council (something which I normally never do!) for changing the lights in my street to the new LED style ones. On top of being more eco-friendly they are far brighter & give a real bright white light which shines down on the street on a far wider radius as opposed to the old style orange dim street lights. Well done the Council for this.
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