One man's 18 month struggle to get a lamp repaired results in...

Broken lamp April 2017

ACTION! ? November 2018

In January this year South Kilburn resident Pete Firmin write about the problems he'd had trying to get a lamp repaired on the footpath way adjacent to Kilburn Park Station LINK.

Apparently the delay in repair was down to a dispute between Brent Council and Catalyst Housing about which organisation was responsible.  You can't fault Pete Firmin in his efforts to get the light repaired:

As the nights draw in one would hope someone would get around to actually repairing it so that pedestrians have the benefit of lighting as they walk along the path - but no!

Instead someone has taken action but only to seal off the light. Is it an artistic prelude to something even more exiting - a repaired light?

 It's a lovely neat sticky tape job but not much to show for more than 18 months of procrastination!

How Long Does It Take To Repair A Light In Brent?

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.