Alarm At Rough Surface Of Teddington Road

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30938, 20 December 1965, Page 11

Alarm At Rough Surface Of Teddington Road

Alarm at the “unsafe" con<i non of the road surface on trie Teddington flat was expressed in a telegram from tne Diamond Harbour Business Association, received by the Mount Herbert County i mncil at its monthly meetir.g The association asked the rv.incil to take urgent action I>< fore the start of holiday t attic. Filling has been ; .aced on the road to build ;• ip for eventual sealing. The clerk (Mr W. H. S Tiingeour) said that the cons ilting engineers (Messrs Itnyds and Sutherland) had a-ked the contractors, M. C. Forke. Ltd., to grade the road • nee a week, or more often if necessary. A transport company had had three breakages on the : >ad. said Cr. E. R. Radcliffe. The surface was just fill and loose metal. Mr Scrimgeour said no pro\>ion was made in the con- • ait for the laying of base course metal. B.g rocks are poking up," said Cr. C. C. Manson. The council decided to tell the engineers that it was con- < erned at the number of large -Tones left on the roadsides, and wondered whether the contractors had met their full responsibilities as to the surface and levels of the road. Cr. Radcliffe said the council should make earliest arrangements to have the surfacing completed and sealed. stop Work.— The building inspector (MrR. W. Churchill) said he had served a stopwork notice on Mr J. R. Bur-

ford, who was building a carport on Mr F. V. Frazer’s property at Governor’s Bay for which a permit had not been issued. He also said that no drams had been laid as required by the Health Act. Dangerous.—Shrubs planted privately with council permission on the Charteris Bav foreshore near the wharf had grown to the point where they obscured visibility, had caused one accident and could cause more, said the foreman (Mr J. R. Needham). He asked that the shrubs either be cut back hard, or removed. Too High.—lt was reported that one tender, considered to be too high, had been received for building two bridges at Port Levy. The council decided to recall tenders. Granta—The council made its annual grant of £5 each to the Port Levy and Governor's Bay Schools.