Create Streets Policy Paper February 2024 Nicholas Boys Smith - STREET SCAR

Create Streets Policy Paper February 2024 Nicholas Boys Smith STREET SCAR Why the utilities firms are ruining our streets and how to stop it Street Scar: why the utilities firms are ruining our streets and how to stop it Street Scar Why the utilities firms are ruining our streets and how to stop it What are street scars? We’ve all seen this: the freshly laid paving, the newly laid granite setts, t. [...] City centre roadworks in London and Paris on October 17th, 2017: ‘London crawling’ comparison in The Economist9 Presumably this is due to the privatised provision of utilities and their rights, as so-called ‘statutory undertakers’ under the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991, to take up the road to meet their needs. [...] Street Scar: why the utilities firms are ruining our streets and how to stop it and cons to both approaches of course but the volume of roadworks is a definite disadvantage. [...] Section 70(4) of the New Roads and Street Works Act 1991 states that the statutory undertaker: ‘shall complete the permanent reinstatement of the street as soon as reasonably practicable, and in any event within 6 months from the date on which the interim reinstatement was completed.’11 If a statutory undertaker fails to do so, under Section (6a) they are liable to a fine of up to only £2,500.12 T. [...] Anti-social behaviour and the decline of the high street were the main reasons cited for declining civic pride.18 Ed Dorrell from Public First, who commissioned the poll concluded: ‘This goes to show just how strongly voters in red-wall areas are desperate to be proud of the places in which they live and for them to be less shabby and less run down.