On the weekend evenings you realise the difference between Belstead Avenue and Rectory Road, there are not the hordes of people very loudly coming home from the pubs and nightclubs. However what can sometimes be a blessing can also be less of a blessing at other times.
The fact that Belstead Avenue is slightly cut off means that the gritter lorries don’t come by and the road is an ice rink, at least the two thirds that is not linking Luther Road and the Maidenhall Estate.
What was dispiriting was talking to a couple of the neighbours, public spirited people who have cleared their drives and helped their neighbours. When we were moaning about the lack of grit on the steep and sharp downhill bend that is Belstead Avenue. I suggested that we get some salt and put it on the road. ”The council won’t let us do that on their road” was the reply.
Whether or not it’s true (and to my shame I don’t know whether that’s the case) it just goes to show what the health and safety nonsense is doing to communities up and down the country. We all moan about it but still it seems to pile on, and that’s before we get to the snow. It doesn’t seem to matter who’s in charge the health and safety rules still come, and worse there’s a paralysis that comes to any community organisation.
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