THINGS NEED SORTING

A public-spirited Brigg householder has drawn up a list of improvements she feels should be carried out by the powers-that-be, mainly in the area where she lives, but also in a few other parts of the town.
She does not wish to be identified but we can tell you she lives on one of North Lincolnshire Homes' estates. As North Lincolnshire Council no longer owns the stock, it's no longer politically correct to use the phrases 'council house' or 'council estate'.
Our concerned informant has given Brigg Blog a guided tour of the area to point out some of the things she feels need improving to make it a better place for her, and her neighbours, to live.
Below is her wish list, which Brigg Blog will be forwarding to North Lincolnshire Homes, North Lincolnshire Council and Brigg Town Council, where Town Mayor Coun Mike Campion says he will take a look.
We will be happy to include the authorities' responses, if, or when, received.
The resident said of her list: “These are thing I have noticed. I'm not moaning, it’s just I feel if we as a community don't communicate the authorities/council are not mind-readers and we all need to put a positive imput into our homes and surrounding areas. Then we would have a good/even better place to live.”

* Garages damaged at the side of the old school on Glebe Road/Hawthorn Avenue area.
* Western Avenue/Poplar Drive: Paving very bad; very, very bad drainage on very wobbly, slippy paths when raining; lots of weeds and rubbish in the snickets. The grassed areas are cut but are overgrowing on to the pathways which doesn't help drainage when it rains.
* We also seem to be getting a lot of Tesco trolleys. I have notice it’s actually adults pushing their shopping home in them, it’s not the kids.
*It would be nice to have some more dog-poo bins.
* A lot of rubbish around the benches in the recreational area.
* Rubbish in the park and under the shed.
* Vale Ancholme School sports hall (Grammar School Road): Before you go in the gates, there is a grassed bank area when the grass is not growing. There is lots of rubbish.
* Down the side of the riverbank there seems to be lots of rubbish and bottles, and the kids hang out under the bridge. What can be done?
* In the Cherry Tree Avenue area there is a public pathway at the back of the houses. It's extremely overgrown and full of nettles. The dog bin has been pushed over/gone.
* Near the Rescource Centre, Horstead Avenue, the pathways area untidy with general weeds.

She added: “I recently got the highways department, who I must say were very prompt, to view the problems we are having of flooding down on the estate and the next day they came and cleared all the drains and they also kindly cleared the drains at the back of the property on Western Avenue, even though they were North Lincolnshire Homes’ responsibility.
“These particular drains have not been cleared for 18 years. But I was told they are far too small and really need replacing and the path needs re-designing.”