“After much careful consideration, Dorset Council has decided to not pursue legal action to challenge the Home Office’s decision to site a barge for asylum seekers in Portland Port. Based on specialist legal advice, and the experience other councils have had across the country, any legal action we take is unlikely to be successful and would incur high costs to Dorset taxpayers.
“We are committed to working with the Home Office and our partners to ensure minimal impact to public services for local people and that provision for the asylum seekers is properly resourced and is effective.”
Surface dressing seems a very short term fix, especially when used at the margins of a carriageway, where it doesn’t last – being in a part of the carriageway has fallen away precisely because of the way the damage has been caused in the first place.
It highlights the main problem about road damage repairs (not only in Dorset) which is that there seems to be no quality control of repairs – most of the pot holes are in the same place year after year, with the same teams coming back time after time in a never-ending repeat of repairs – that were not properly done in the first place- by doing sub-standard repairs all over again …. again ….. and again.
Hi Timmo, I have passed your comments on to our Highways team. Best regards, Claire