Still in the Dark!

At the County Council meeting yesterday, I also tried to see if I could progress the issue about the lack of repairs to our street lights in Grove because of cable faults, which are the responsibility of Southern Electric. I was told that these faults take between 10 and 60 days and there are no financial penalites attached to the service level agreement with the electricity company - which basically means, if they are not repaired, there is nothing we can do!

With dark nights and winter approaching, this is not good news for our residents - especially those along Oxford Lane, Mayfield Avenue and Godfrey Close where they have been left in the dark for weeks. When I asked whether the Cabinet member would consider pursuing a financial penalty to help solve the problem, I was told that residents should phone the street lighting fault number (0800 317802) which has been done dozens of times by many of us, just to hit the same problem - it is a cable fault! So keep battling on with this one.