I am quite sure most visitors and shoppers making a recent visit in to Spalding town centre last Saturday will be well aware of the recent refurbishment of a major high street baker and confectioner and the subsequent re-opening of this business.
Any such venture, particularly in the current economic climate has to be thoroughly applauded, even more so when it is of a commercial nature, as the risks can be very high indeed, so I am sure we will wish it, and indeed, all similar ventures all success.
Bearing this in mind I find it totally ironic and furthermore, appalling that less than 100 yards down the road from this establishment we have incurred a totally hideous barrier and “soggy sandbags” on the pavement surrounding some uneven block paving for the last five weeks and no one has bothered to make good the problem during that time, a problem which could have been rectified by anyone of any integrity, in half a day maximum!
There has never been a more pressing time to keep our town in good “fettle” (many would say it is too late anyway) and given such negligence by local authorities, is there any wonder, it is totally indefensible.
They say history has a habit of repeating itself, but in so doing we should learn from our mistakes, unfortunately history is repeating itself, as a similar situation occurred in front of The Red Lion Quarter at the end of last year, this exactly similar sorry mess took three MONTHS to rectify!
Quite obviously no one in authority learned from that one.
I would therefore ask the following: Who is responsible for resolving the matter? Why does it take such in interminable amount of time to sort out such a relatively minor problem? And above all, is anyone in authority prepared to say sorry?
This is a dereliction of our duties in maintaining the town in a good state of repair and therefore making it appealing to visitors.
It would be very easy to imagine that if these personnel responsible for this farce were employed in the commercial sector, they would soon be seen very discreetly departing an “ivory tower” clutching a piece of paper in the form of a P45!
Richard Howell
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