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Dear Tesco…
Abandoned shopping trolleys are regularly left scattered along the pavement outside your store on Stroud Green Road, Islington, London. I know your staff sometimes clear them away, but in recent months this seems to happen only very infrequently and as a result the pavement is often blocked by scattered trolleys. Could you get the staff [...]
Stroud Green Road's long-running pot hole saga nears an end
Exciting news today for pot hole fans: the mega long-running saga of the pot holes at the junction of Stroud Green Road and Morris Place is nearing the end game. For nearly a year Thames Water has been hunting out one or more leaks in the area (with the continuing leaks preventing proper repairs to [...]
Sainsbury's is coming to Stroud Green Road
Woody’s is going, Sainsbury’s is coming:
Hunt for the mystery water leak on Stroud Green Road goes on
Latest news on the long running saga of the pot holes at the junction of Stroud Green Road and Morris Place: the source of the leaking water still hasn’t been located. For a while Thames Water thought it was someone else’s water causing the problem, but with the mystery still unresolved (and hence the leak [...]
As if by magic: Thames Water set to start work in Stroud Green Road
I’ve blogged before about the massively long-running saga of the potholes at the corner of Stroud Green Road and Morris Place. In brief: combination of blocked drains and water leak meant pothole repairs kept on being wrecked, drains now fixed but water leak outstanding – and complicated by high pressure in system caused by local [...]
Stroud Green Road potholes (southern division) saga continues
The Stroud Green Road potholes (northern division) may now be a blessed memory, but what of those near the southern end of the road, near Morris Place? They were patched and reappeared several times before it was decided that the real problem was a water leak under the road, which (sensibly) should be fixed first. [...]
More Stroud Green Road pothole excitement
A news release pings in to my inbox about the repairs being made to Stroud Green Road’s heritage potholes (northern section). I had actually wondered when going past the roadworks why there wasn’t the usual smell of sticky black stuff, even though a long stretch of the northern end of the road was being dug [...]
Stroud Green Road potholes on the run
Stroud Green Road’s heritage potholes are currently under a pincer attack. At the northern end of the road there are monster roadworks underway at last. And at the southern end of the road, after months of searching, Thames Water has finally found the leak suspected to be the cause of the regular subsidence causing potholes [...]
Stroud Green Road mega-potholes update
Stroud Green Road has been plagued with potholes near the junction with Morris Place for a very long time. The problem? Something is up involving water, which causes regular subsidence and new potholes. They’ve hunted for leaks. They’ve dug huge holes in the ground. They’ve cleaned out the drainage pipes and fitted new grills. And now [...]
