Where We Are

Two major problems remain affecting West Drove South. The first being already covered here in this blog: the wrongdoing and cover-up.


The second big issue is the building of 6 affordable houses on just about the most stupid place that could be found. Properties potentially housing 18 maybe more children on a single track country lane with no street lights and no footpath. SHDC & LCC, the Dumb and Dumber of councils, now won't acknowledge the traffic hazard they have created. Petitioning to have the ridiculous speed limit of 40mph lowered has been dismissed out of hand - the residents who live there and even the MP John Hayes all agree the limit is too high but the faceless bureaucrats won't have any of it. And then there's the footpath that will be built 'because it was part of the planning permission'. A footpath along a single track country lane up tight against shrubs and trees whose roots will cause damage to the path fabric in short order, a path that will be unusable for weeks on end from the regrowth of vegetation, a path nobody will guarantee will afford double buggies and wheelchairs full use of unrestricted by street furniture! So why waste council tax money on a white elephant? Pedestrians will be forced to use the remaining roadway when the footpath is unusable so what point are these councils trying to make? Dumb and Dumber is probably on the kind side!