Archive for islington council
210 bus route diversion: it's because the roads are too dangerous
The mystery over the long running diversion on the 210 bus route – with the stops on Beaumount Rise closed for several weeks – has been solved. It turns out that the awful road surface along Beaumont Rise is now so bad that Transport for London decided it was no longer safe for the 210′s [...]
Contact Islington data opened up
Regular readers will know that I’m a keen user of Contact Islington for reporting graffiti, dumped rubbish, materials left behind by contractors* and so on. My experience of Contact Islington has been rather patchy and can be summarised as: too often gets things wrong first time round but once you get an issue escalated through [...]
Live in Islington? Take part in the annual wildlife survey
Islington Council is running a wildlife survey and urging residents to take part: Anyone with a garden, balcony or even a window box, can take part and there is a chance to enter our prize draw to win some fabulous wildlife gardening goodies! A free wildlife gardening pack is also available for all those who [...]
Contact Islington: May update
Here then are the scores on the doors for 2010 so far, listing the number of reports I’ve made: 143 graffiti 28 dumped rubbish from the corporate sector 74 dumped rubbish from private individuals 2 road name sign issues 10 utility cabinets issues 9 street lights not working 20 pot holes 25 other issues … [...]
Contact Islington: April update
Here then are the scores on the doors for 2010 so far, listing the number of reports I’ve made: 127 graffiti 21 dumped rubbish from the corporate sector 65 dumped rubbish from private individuals 2 road name sign issues 5 utility cabinets issues 9 street lights not working 19 pot holes 24 other issues … [...]
Contact Islington: March update
Here then are the scores on the doors for 2010 so far, listing the number of reports I’ve made: 85 graffiti 14 dumped rubbish from the corporate sector 56 dumped rubbish from private individuals 2 road name sign issues 4 utility cabinets issues 8 street lights not working 16 pot holes 19 other issues … for [...]
Islington Wildlife: new local blog
The headline mostly says it: there’s a new local blog, about wildlife in Islington. It’s called, drum roll please………., Islington Wildlife. Looks quite fun and interesting so far and I like the touch of having sketches of the post authors at the bottom of each post.
Contact Islington: February update
Here then are the scores on the doors for 2010 so far, listing the number of reports I’ve made: 57 graffiti 12 dumped rubbish from the corporate sector 42 dumped rubbish from private individuals 1 road name sign 2 utility cabinets 8 street lights 11 pot holes 9 others … for a grand total of [...]
Clause 81 of the New Roads and Street Act 1991 is your friend
You may have been following some of my travails trying to get repairs made to some of those telephone, broadband, traffic light etc boxes which appear on many pavements.
Although my own local council (Islington) is very good at dealing with them either directly themselves or passing on to the relevant company and ensuring the work [...]
Contact Islington: how did January go?
After my 515 reports to Contact Islington during 2009, I thought I’d keep a month by month record of how reporting goes during 2010. Here then are the scores on the doors for January, listing the number of reports I’ve made: 39 graffiti 4 dumped rubbish from the corporate sector 21 dumped rubbish from private [...]
