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Verge collapse wrongly marked by OCC workers

Reported via iOS in the Roads and Carriageways category by Gregory Lismore at 12:12, Wed 12 March 2025

Sent to Oxfordshire County Council less than a minute later

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I reported a length of road where the edge has disintegrated again. It was marked in white paint yesterday 11 March 2025 but most of the defect is ignored. 2photos show the extent of the damage and the third the small portion with white paint round it. If only the white marked area is repaired the remaining defect is still hazardous. Please repair the overall defect at the same time to save money. Same place. Same workers. A little more fill material and 30 minutes work max. OCC closed the original entry on fixmystreet after applying the paint. Hope you can help fix this and give better value.

Council ref: ENQ251041254

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  • Thank you for your enquiry. This issue has been passed onto the relevant team for investigation.

    State changed to: Investigating

    Posted by Oxfordshire County Council at 12:12, Wed 12 March 2025

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    A further photograph 13 March 2025 showing how silly the white marking is in relation to the defect. Who for OCC is doing quality control on our contractors as clearly this example shows that our tax money is being wasted and this example is really easy to rectify properly first time.

    Posted by Gregory Lismore at 10:40, Fri 14 March 2025

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    I wonder why they only marked a part of this tyre shredder. If this catches the inside of a tyre then damage will ensue. Maybe they only marked the ‘deep end’ ??

    Posted by Gregory Lismore at 18:22, Fri 14 March 2025

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    Still waiting to hear anything. I sent this to our OCC elected member (Kate Gregory) who said she would bring it to the attention of the relevant department.

    Posted by Gregory Lismore at 15:37, Tue 18 March 2025

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    Well they turned up today 3 April 2025 and cut out the bit inside the white paint and filled it in and completely ignored the rest of the defect. What a waste of my ratepayers money and an example OCC should be made to feel ashamed about.

    Posted by Gregory Lismore at 16:50, Thu 3 April 2025

  • Thank you for your report. Although I didn't marked it originally myself, we as highway inspectors were restricted at the time to a maximum repair of 2m2 size per defect hence all the cracked affected area couldn't be accommodated other than catagory3 repair which can take years for a action. Recently things have changed in that we now can react with up to 10m2 patch per repair. Therefore, next time much more can be cut. For now I don't think we need to do anymore in terms of immediate safety but we will monitor it and when it degrades enough much larger patch repairs can be done

    State changed to: Investigation complete

    Posted by Oxfordshire County Council at 15:04, Thu 14 August 2025

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