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Lady Drove, Downham Market, Norfolk
PE38 0AG King's Lynn and West Norfolk District (B)
Local issues reported to Fix My Street within 2 miles of PE38 0AG
Are there any local nuisances? Listing problems that have been reported by residents, including graffiti, fly tipping, broken paving slabs or street lighting.
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Tyre dumped at roadside
12th February
Junction of Lady Drove and The Drove (aka Barroway Drove), at Barroway Drove, near Downham Market.
There is a car tyre dumped next to the BT cabinet at this junction, (see photos).
It would be spiffing if you coddle remove it.
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Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Stow Bardolph, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Road surface breaking up (2)
29th November
Please refer to NCC refs:
ENQ-729954-D8G3Q0 (Previous report of this defect)
&
ENQ-729956-F9G8R8 (Edge of road subsiding nearby).
These two reports are about a car's length apart and were reported at the same time, (see ref numbers).
The other defect was allocated ref ENQ-729956, which was 2 reports later than this one (ENQ-729954).
28 11 24, the other repair was completed, with the area being resurfaced, giving a great improvement, yet nothing was done about this defect and it remains in need of repair. Why the heck was this one NOT programmed for repair at the same time?, given that your crew and resources were all here for the other defect.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Stow Bardolph, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Road surface breaking up
24th October
Lady Drove, Barroway Drove. About 70m down Lady Drove from its junction with 'The Drove' (aka Barroway Drove/Barroway Drove Road), roughly opposite 'The Anvil'.
An area of road surface beside a drainage gully, at the foot of telegraph pole 1, is breaking up and the lower level of roadstone is clearly visible. This area is frequently used as a passing place by HGVs and other oversized vehicles, hence the damage.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Stow Bardolph, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Stow Bardolph, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Edge of road subsiding
24th October
Lady Drove, Barroway Drove. About 90m down Lady Drove from its junction with 'The Drove' (aka Barroway Drove/Barroway Drove Road, roughly opposite 'The Forge' and 'Westlea'.
The edge of the road, (field side) is subsiding into the field, (see photos). This area, between telegraph poles 1 & 1A, is frequently used as a passing place by HGVs and other oversized vehicles, hence the damage.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Stow Bardolph, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Stow Bardolph, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Road name sign damaged
4th September
Barroway Drove. PE38 0AJ.
Junction of Lady Drove with 'The Drove' (aka Barroway Drove).
The 'Lady Drove' name sign, near the hedge, has sustained damage and appears to require a new support post, (see photos).
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Stow Bardolph, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Junction road markings erased
4th September
Barroway Drove. PE38 0AJ.
Junction of Lady Drove with 'The Drove' (aka Barroway Drove).
The 'give way' markings at this junction are severely worn and, for the most part, non-existent, (see photos).
This is mainly caused by the number of HGVs, and similar large vehicles that negotiate this tight and narrow junction every day.
The view, when pulling out of the junction, is somewhat compromised, making the need of clear 'give way' markings all the greater.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Stow Bardolph, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Downham West, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Damaged access cover; deep hole exposed. DANGEROUS SITUATION. 2.
2nd September
(Second instance). DANGEROUS SITUATION, 600mm deep hole in verge beside the road.
Lady Drove, between Downham Market and Barroway Drove.
Between Tile Farm and the Anglian Water building in Lady Drove, - on the left, as you are heading from Downham Market (A1122 junction) toward Barroway Drove
Nearest W3W location:
Https://what3words.com/interlude.boast.renting
On Thurs, 29 08 24, the verges of this road were cut by (I assume) a contractor to NCC Highways.
In the process of this work a concrete service chamber (Manhole), in the verge and just next to the road itself, has been severely damaged. The cover has been broken and dislodged from its surround, exposing the chamber below, and a hole which is 600mm deep and contains wiring.
The damaged cover is partly obscured by the cuttings left in the process and is a significant hazard to all road users, particularly pedestrians/dog walkers, who have no pavement and must move on to the verge to avoid vehicles.
Please fence off this hole until such time as it can be properly repaired.
NB. This is NOT the same damaged service cover that you identified and coned on 30 08 24, this is another that has been damaged in the same way.
This report relates to a cover on the opposite side of the road, about 100 metres from the one you have coned/fenced.
This cover can be found by looking for the short wooden stake with a yellow top that has been placed in the verge to warn pedestrians, (see photos).
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Downham West, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Downham West, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Damaged access cover; deep hole exposed. DANGEROUS SITUATION.
29th August
DANGEROUS SITUATION, 600mm deep hole in verge beside the road.
Lady Drove, between Downham Market and Barroway Drove.
Between Tile Farm and the Anglian Water building in Lady Drove, - on the left, heading from Downham Market (A1122 junction) toward Barroway Drove
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Https://what3words.com/messed.picked.fuzz
Today, 29 08 24, the verges of this road were cut by (I assume) a contractor to NCC Highways.
In the process of this work a concrete service chamber (Manhole), in the verge and just next to the road itself, has been severely damaged. The cover has been broken and dislodged from its surround, exposing the chamber below, and a hole which is 600mm deep and contains wiring.
The damaged cover is partly obscured by the cuttings left in the process and is a significant hazard to all road users, particularly pedestrians/dog walkers, who have no pavement and must move on to the verge to avoid vehicles.
Please fence off this hole until such time as it can be properly repaired.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Downham West, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Noise from expansion joint in bridge
2nd August
A1122 Downham Market.
On 'Downham Bridge', - the bridge at the junction of the A1122 and Farthing Road.
Heading over this bridge toward Downham Market (Eastbound), the second expansion joint of the bridge makes a metallic clunk/rattle when driven over suggesting a failure of said joint.
Please see attached photo.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Bridge Road, Downham West, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Water leaking across road
1st August
Been ongoing for more than a week. Water running across the road. Burst pipe????
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Downham Road, Downham West, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Local flytipping spot
29th June
Hedging and fence destroyed and area covered I flytipped rubbish.
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Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Downham West, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Highway damaged
16th April
Lady Drove, Downham Market. Roughly half way along Lady Drove and midway between Barroway Drove and Tile Farm.
A vehicle, (possibly an agricultural vehicle), has left the road and entered the field at a location that is not intended for such access. In so doing it has caused damage to the edge of the road surface, making it crumble at one of the locations where the road is already subsiding into the field, (see photos). This damage is not far from the 'bend in the road' warning sign.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Downham West, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Stow Bardolph, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Deformed road surface caused accident
10th April
Lady Drove, Downham Market. Look for 'SLOW' painted on the road just BEFORE entering the 40MPH speed limit for Barroway Drove, (heading from the A1122 toward Barroway Drove).
On 12 02 24 partial subsidence of the road at this location was reported to NCC Highways, and allocated NCC ref: ENQ-686692-Z5Z6P2.
On 15 02 24 NCC Highways stated that it had no intention of doing anything about this defect:
(Quote) 'No action has been taken at this time but we will continue to monitor the problem -We have assessed that the defect does not currently meet our intervention criteria. We will continue to monitor as part of normal scheduled inspections' (Unquote)
It came as no surprise to anyone familiar with the condition of this awful road that on Monday, 08 04 24, a car driven by someone who was unfamiliar with the condition of this awful road, ended up in the ditch, (see photos) for the following reason:
Where the edge of the road is subsiding into the ditch it has caused a ridge to form in the road surface, which can snatch to the left, the steering of any vehicle caught by it, toward, or as in this case, into the ditch.
Those who know this road will take to the centreline or even to the opposite side to avoid this danger.
Fortuitously, this was not a fatal accident.
Please repair this dangerous defect before another, possibly more statistically-significant accident occurs here.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Stow Bardolph, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Road closesure inadequately signed
17th February
Only one diversion sign when upon the road closure. Nothing at the start of the road on either entrance involving travelling approx 2 miles before finding out road is closed and limited turning space. Possibly Anglian water? Lazy contractors!!
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Highbridge Road, Stow Bardolph, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Road subsiding into deep ditch
12th February
Lady Drove, Downham Market. Look for 'SLOW' painted on the road just BEFORE entering the 40MPH speed limit for Barroway Drove, (heading from the A1122 toward Barroway Drove).
At the left side of the road, where 'SLOW' has been painted on the road, the edge of the highway is subsiding toward the ditch/drain which runs alongside the road. Look too for a rut in the verge beside the subsiding section, where an HGV recently left the road and almost ended up in the ditch.
Please see attached photos.
Lady Drove was partly closed earlier this month for much-needed repair work to similar defects, but this section was missed, despite having been previously marked by NCC for repair.
A disproportionate number of HGVs use this feeble road, which probably goes a long way to explaining this subsidence.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Stow Bardolph, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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A1122. Road surface disintegrating
9th February
A1122 Near Salters Lode.
Eastbound, leaving Salters Lode and heading toward Downham Market, there is a patch of road (Eastbound track), where the surface is disintegrating and is very rough. It is a particular danger to motorcyclists. Sorry, I cannot provide a photo, it is not a safe place to stop, but the defect can be easily found from this description.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Downham Road, Downham West, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Downham Market, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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A1122 flooded again due to blocked gully
9th February
This is a recurring defect.
This gully was cleared fairly recently but it has blocked yet again.
A1122 at junction with St Johns Way, Downham Market.
Drain/gully in the centre of the roundabout, directly opposite the A1122 exit with the level crossing, is blocked or slow running, causing the roundabout to flood whenever there is rainfall. SEE PHOTO.
Often, about half the width of the road floods, as in the photo, but in heavy rain the entire width of the road can flood.
Being on a roundabout, this is a serious hazard, particularly to motorcycles.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Downham Market, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Forthcoming road closure. PE38 0--.
13th January
Dear Sir/Madam
I understand that Lady Drove, Downham Market, (PE38 0--), it due to be closed for a time around the end of January 2024.
I have tried to obtain more information about this through your website, but the link to 'one.network' repeatedly fails to load.
Please could you provide some information about this closure.
For example:
The intended dates.
The reason for the closure.
Any detail you have of the work that will be undertaken, and by whom it will be undertaken.
Arrangements to be made for resident's access during the work, etc.
Thank you.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Downham West, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Downham West, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Pothole has returned
again.
Lady Drove, Downham Market. Toward the A1122 end of Lady Drove, very close to the 40mph/NSL signs, (near Poplar Farm).
This area has been repeatedly reported to NCC Highways because the road is collapsing and has become dangerous as a result.
Vehicles trying to avoid the centre of the road where the degradation is at its worst, take to the edges of the road. As a result of this, a previously patched pothole at the edge of the road has again opened up into deep pothole.
A further danger is presented by the lack of drainage at this location, so that any rainfall causes the formation of a large puddle which then hides the presence of this, significant pothole.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Lady Drove, Downham West, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Downham Market, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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Defective manhole cover & surrounding surface..
8th January
Downham Market. A1122 junction with Railway Road at 'Heygates roundabout'. A manhole cover at this roundabout is loose and makes a loud clang when driven over. Additionally, the previously repaired surround of this manhole has again disintegrated and has formed a deep pothole around it, revealing sharp edges of the ironwork. See photos.
Nearest road to the pin placed on the map (automatically generated by OpenStreetMap): Downham Market, King's Lynn and West Norfolk
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