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Call for work on A56 at Earby

5:57pm Wednesday 18th June 2008

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A SECTION of a main road in Earby is in a diabolical condition', according to a local county councillor.

The state of the A56 Skipton Road was discussed at the latest meeting of the West Craven Committee.

County Councillor David Whipp said: "It's in a diabolical condition.

"It's one of the grottiest roads in Pendle and probably one of the grottiest in the county". Part of the road was improved and widened a few years ago after pressure from residents. But speaking after the meeting, Coun Whipp said the section of Skipton Road outside All Saints' Church was in a deplorable condition.

It was also very narrow and caused problems for cyclists and pedestrians. "It needs to be widened," he said. The Diocese of Bradford owns the land around All Saints' Church and there had been plans to sell it for development but leave part of the site to allow the road to be widened.

"A couple of months ago that deal was off because of the downturn in the housing market," Coun Whipp said.

The road is now at the top of Lancashire County Council's reserve list for work to be done.

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Jim, Colne says...
1:31pm Thu 19 Jun 08

David Whipp, how long have you been a County Councillor?! The roads are in this state because you are rubbish at your job!!
Jim

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David Whipp, West Craven says...
11:00pm Thu 19 Jun 08

Thanks 'Jim'.

I've been a county councillor since 1981. Since then, the only time that our roads and pavements improved across the county was when us Liberals had the balance of power on the county council in the late 1980s.

It was one of our policy priorities to invest more in road and pavement repairs - and we got millions invested in resurfacing. As a result, road conditions began to improve.

After Labour got a majority on the county council, they steadily reduced the investment and road conditions began to deteriorate faster than they got repaired, bringing us to the point now where there's a backlog of hundreds of £millions of repairs.

At budget time, we've proposed alternatives which would have seen more spent on surfacing but been voted down by the Labour majority.

The blame for our deteriorating roads lays firmly with the controlling Labour group.

As the representative for West Craven, I've fought succesfully to get other local roads resurfaced - including the adjacent stretch of the A56 last year. If I was 'rubbish at my job' the roads in my patch would be in a poorer state than they are.

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burger, west craven says...
5:27am Fri 20 Jun 08

dear jim.i suggest you stop voting labour and vote liberal.to get jobs done.if you vote labour buggerall gets done in pendle by the county council.i think you need to take off your roy orbison shades mate.ps i dont think david whipp is a tar macker either.david has been asking for this bit of road to be widened as well.but your mates.the labour party in control at county hall preston would rather spend monies on a new canteen than give us a decent road in west craven.ps hows the work going on at top of colne?.i bet your chaves cant wait to wreck it.after what i saw last sat night.

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Chris, Earby says...
12:36pm Fri 20 Jun 08

Labour - Libral it does not matter. Earby is to far out to matter and we will only get what money might be left over. If the job was done right the resurfacing work last year would have started at the new survice road and gone right troughg to the Station Hotel. But not enough mone for Earby. Since 1981 we have had a Barnoldswick Representive on LCC who thinks earby is a drain on his time.
Put Eaarby back in Yorkshire Where it belongs.

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Kevin, Colne says...
1:59pm Fri 20 Jun 08

The truth is councillors have very little power. Local authorities, like all organisations, are driven by the culture. That culture is one of: the local authority is their to serve the people, therefore anything that serves the bureau must also be serving the people.

When one then adds to this brew rampant managerialism and blind faith in technology you begin to see that we're in a pretty deep hole.

Public sector organisations have been able to expand and consume ever more and more resources into wholly non-productive or valueless activities.

None of the political parties dare tackle this. The leading members seem bedazzled and spell-bound by the new public sector managerailism (NPSM), and because members of the bureaus are voters too the politicains dare not rock the boat.

I fear that we face a future of decling public services and a growing burden of taxation.

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