Increase in council tax is baffling if roads are not fixed
Dear Editor I have written to object to the increase in my council tax and ask that Perth and Kinross Council explain exactly what I am getting for the charges they intend to implement.
I am constantly told that the road in front of my cottage is“private”, so no repairs are ever carried out and the drains are never “sooked clear”by the roads department anymore, so it is laughable for them to say that they take away waste water, as the water just runs over the drain and down the hill.
In bad weather I have had to sandbag the road entrance to my garage to save flooding in my back yard.
All the drains from my cottage up towards Bowerswell Lane and Bowerswell Memorial Homes are all chocked, so therefore rain water just runs down the road causing more damage and destroying the road, and I believe now causing flooding to the houses overlooking the Tay.
A neighbour repaired two potholes outside my cottage last year because I could not get the council to do the work and was told“private road”!
This is a very busy corner of Bowerswell Road used by all sorts of heavy vehicles. Traffic coming up the road all pull into the“private road”to let vehicles pass coming down main Bowerswell Road, and daily deliveries from the on-line shopping by people who live up Kinnoull Hill are constant and one of the main users of Bowerswell Road.
There are several potholes again appearing in the road opposite my house and it is a very worrying and frustrating situation.
Regularly using the “private road”is the bus service passing my door up to Bowerswell Memorial Homes several times a day; refuse lorries, many carer’s vehicles, taxis, ambulances etc.
I had to have CCTV installed a few years ago because of vandals so I can prove just how many vehicles use the“private road”.
I have lived here for 35 years and the increase in new housing up Kinnoull Hill is all very well and nice revenue for the council, but they should recognise the impact is has had on folk who live down this end and having to put up with problems, the council should have taken this on board. M R BurnsBellingham Perth The Perthshire Advertiser took rubber ducks out in the city to highlight the issue of potholes