Nine Labour Councillors serve Crosby village. Do they never walk around the community that they serve? Since turning our clocks back an hour on October 21st , the nights are now a lot darker and navigating your way around the village is becoming dangerous. Three lights are out in the Crosby Green car park, one of which is near to the Nat West cash machine, the other by the ticket dispenser. Since the completion of the new housing block on Central buildings the area at night time has become considerably darker. 50% of the street lighting on the pedestrian area of Moor Lane between Boots and Home Bargains is not lit.
The car parks are in a dreadful state, pot holes, uneven surfaces and big puddles because of inadequate drainage. A danger to pedestrians and motorists.
Why has the redevelopment of the car parks which, for which Sefton Council granted themselves planning permission , not taken place?
Where is the access road off the by-pass and the new temporary welfare building promised for essential workers?
Sefton Council have failed to embrace the era of the electric car as there are no charging points available, unlike other privately managed car parks in the area.
What do they do with the revenue from the car park charges? We just don’t know. We are literally kept in the dark.
On what do they spend the Section 106 monies received from the 111 new dwellings built in the village?
The large roundabout at the top of Cooks Road which serves 5 road junctions is also poorly lit, lights are out on the junction itself and along the top of Cooks Road (this is near to a busy primary school )
Street lighting improves road safety for drivers and pedestrians and helps reduce crime and anti social behaviour. It also assists emergency services if they need to access roads or car parks. Dark roads, avenues and car parks create a lingering sense of fear among residents and add to the feeling of neglect and general decline of an area.
Even reporting the lack of lighting on the Sefton website is a waste of time. It provides no indication of how many other residents have reported the issue on previous occasions, and the date on which this was done. So we wait and we wait. But not to worry our 9 Labour Councillors “of the community for the community” we hope will use their “strong voice” to get the lights turned on and fix our broken village.
