Riverside railings need repairing as a matter of urgency

[Hereford Voice 88]

The riverside railings were severely damaged during the floods of early 2020 and again this year.

As you can see from these photographs the railings are clearly unsafe and look like they could fall into the river at anytime.

The gap that has been exposed is clearly dangerous even though Herefordshire Council contractors have placed barriers across but this needs addressing as a matter of urgency and we will be pushing the Council for an answer this week on when the public can expect these railings to be repaired.

[ragwert 386]

They do seem to pick & choose what needs to be repaired or replaced & I'd of thought these barriers would be top priority.
Take the barriers that were knocked down on the Starting gate roundabout a month ago and were replaced within three weeks and the same type of barriers in Belmont Road going to Waterfield Road that were knocked down before Christmas and still not been done.

[50inHerefordshire 1]

This access of Wye Walk to Asda direction or onto Salisbury etc was closed after the flood in Feb 2020. I know the Manager of the Kindle Center flagged up this lack of access for all walkin clients of theirs. I do not know when they opened access and put the barrier up but it is now 12 months with a unsafe solution. But it is POOR that uses the Wye Walk as access around Hereford. Hereford Council have spent ££Ms for the B4224 road closure which happened on the same day. I question the Council priorities.

[twowheelsgood 618]

On 16/02/2021 at 00:03, ragwert said:

They do seem to pick & choose what needs to be repaired or replaced & I'd of thought these barriers would be top priority.
Take the barriers that were knocked down on the Starting gate roundabout a month ago and were replaced within three weeks and the same type of barriers in Belmont Road going to Waterfield Road that were knocked down before Christmas and still not been done.

Presumably the Starting Gate work was done by Highways Agency as it's the A49T. Local work, BBLP can't be bothered, they freely admit they work on a reactive basis - until there is a volume of complaints, they'll ignore it.

[retrographics 3]

I would like to add that damage to this area started way back in 2018, the large fencing areas was only placed there in 2020 who  responsibility is it, the The environment agency, the council, the Forestry Commission for allowing all the trees down the river,  as somebody suggested that sarky comment they placed on a post I placed on Facebook, 

[freddog 0]

On 20/02/2021 at 11:45, twowheelsgood said:

Presumably the Starting Gate work was done by Highways Agency as it's the A49T. Local work, BBLP can't be bothered, they freely admit they work on a reactive basis - until there is a volume of complaints, they'll ignore it.

BBLP are commissioned by the Council to work on a reactive basis, I don't think that's the fault of BBLP but a fault of the Council and/or Central Government for not adequately funding the highways network.

[K.Butt 221]

On 23/02/2021 at 11:42, retrographics said:

I would like to add that damage to this area started way back in 2018, the large fencing areas was only placed there in 2020 who  responsibility is it, the The environment agency, the council, the Forestry Commission for allowing all the trees down the river,  as somebody suggested that sarky comment they placed on a post I placed on Facebook, 

The EA are responsible for the river banks I believe but these railings will be the responsibility of the council.

[50inHerefordshire 1]

Update 25Feb2021

I was walking over the Wye bridge and two BBLP employees were looking at the broken railings and temporary barrier fix.

I asked when the path railing repairs would be done and the BBLP employee said that their visit was the initial scope and repairs to follow.

To be continued 

[twowheelsgood 618]

Perhaps they're working to the now established 'Fownhope' method - expect a very large bill and an open ended timetable to finish the work.