Argyle St to Stadium

Alaska is more hospitable.

 

****e

 

Agree, it urgently needs some strimming. Also parts of the path are showing signs of the embankment slipping as the cracks are getting wider. Couple of bad storm events could see the whole lot sliding towards the rail line.

 

Terrorism, eco-crisis, geological concerns...

...anymore?

 

Cataclysm? I know, no religion ta.

 

Dog **** that no one's picked up.

 

Indeed. Everyone knows the responsible thing to do is to hide them in one of the encroaching bushes, or dangle them safely from one of the errant tree branches that is invading the walkway.

 

Same thing, at least in our Chumpionship relegation season.

 

ASAP?

Day 1 and counting.....

 

Is the gate at the stadium end only open on match days? and is there a gate at argyle street which is also closed except for match days?

 

So the council is responsible for the walkway but the Allams can decide to close the gate at the end of it ?

 

The club has asked the council to clear the walkway. I’m not sure that’s the same as saying the council is responsible for its clearance.

 

This is news to me! I'll keep my eye out next time I'm walking along there. Whereabouts are the remains?

 

I'd heard the KC / MKM stadium was falling into disrepair but I hadn't realised it was as bad as that?

 

So who is? Whoever owns it? Which would be...?

 

You know, this is a great example of how a business approaches things vs a community organisation. The community organisation takes the view that while it may not be clearly their responsibility, it would take a couple of men a few hours max to clear it with some petrol strimmers and remove the waste. A few hundred quid spent, get the press down and/or pics in social media for some cheap publicity, to say you did it because it improves the flow of thousands of people when the stadium empties (safety) and stops people’s legs being knackered by brambles and nettles (keeps your customers happy). A side benefit is you maybe even get one over the council in PR if you’re that way inclined. This approach may have been done before.

a cash strapped community organisation may try the same with volunteers and/or goodwill and free publicity to the firm doing the work.

a “well-run”business looks at the bottom line, concludes that this is someone else’s fault for not spending their council tax properly and passes the buck elsewhere.

 

And who is responsible ifsomething goes wrong? Who has the public liability insurance! Councils stop people trimming verges etc citing public liability issues and demand people return sites to their original state even if what they have done is improve an unkempt mess. Maybe if they spent a fraction of the time they did on cycle lanes these things might be seen to.

 

Yeah, right, must check my public liability insurance next time I cut the privet hedge at the front of my house.

Any company doing work like this would have public liability insurance, although I'm not sure what liability there may be cutting back weeds on path that is essentially closed outside of matchdays thanks to the anti-terror gate.

 

Missing the point. You were saying a community organisation could get a couple of blokes to turn up. What happens if they are injured or someone is injured because of their work? I was not taking of you trimming your privet hedge. I was referring to work in public spaces. Only someone unwilling to consider their plans aren't viable would not see that.