Confining a building site

Email sent this morning. Forwarded to Cranfield PC and Persimmon. 
It has to be remembered that this isn't just about the residents in in Lodge Road. There's the school buses, Theo who is blind, me  cycling and loads of other Cranfield residents who use Lodge Road as thoroughfare through to Court Road, by foot, on bikes with stabilisers and with push chairs. I hope we don't have to wait til the stakeholder meeting on 17 November for some resolution.  

Thank you Laurence

I walked the road this morning. Bearing in mind background on the technical side of road construction you would find, if tested, that the stopping distance for vehicles in the slippery conditions caused by the wet mud coating will have at least doubled. The risk to pedestrians, aside from skidding vehicles is proportionally increased and can be equated to walking on black ice. Bearing in mind that there are a lot of unsteady and elderly residents on Lodge Road and in the village it is totally unacceptable and is in Health and Safety a Significant Risk. There are additional enviromental risks of uncontrolled and potentially contaminated materials in the public domain and water courses. The erection of warning signs do not reduce risk or more importantly liability. Hastily erected hand written signs don't count.

I would also point out that as you have informed the local authority and the main contractor,Persimmon Homes, who cannot swerve their liabilities as it is their site and all works / subcontractors on the site whether directly or indirectly employed come under responsibility and liabilty, should there be a serious incident on the public highway  ie Lodge Road or the surrounding highways then the police will investigate using what is called the "Death Manual" It is obvious that the existing road conditions would be found to be a significant " factor in most cases" which means that local and senior managers up to director level are liable to private prosecution from the Local Authority, to Highways management , Persimmon and all the contactors and sub contractors involved in the site. The HSE take a very dim veiw and will also prosecute.

To remove the risk which is possible and therefore legally required the source of the problem has to be removed / rectified.

In this case it requires several changes to working procedures and practises of which the installation and maintainance of a powerful water recycling wheel wash combined with a jetting roadsweeper.

The comment is right    "" the building site should stay within the confines of its fenced restraints and not allowed to spread and affect the lives of the residents of Lodge Road and Cranfield"""