When you are a councillor there are times you get over-praised by a resident for arranging something that was actually very easy to do.<\/p>\n
But there are days when you work very hard on an issue but nobody seems to recognise what you have done!<\/p>\n
Our Lib Dem colleague Chris Lumley has had one of those<\/em> days. <\/p>\n The gas pipeline works in London Road are causing huge problems for local traders – as reported in the Echo. Obviously this is beyond Chris’ control but he has done his best to help by finding out the details about where the shops could claim for compensation for loss of trade. He then went round all the shops giving them that information. He has also passed on complaints that with the gas working in Down Hall Road there are problems with drives, sideroads and the Travellers Joy Car Park. When they are in-between the traffic lights and there is little traffic (such as early in the morning or late at night ) they have no way of knowing if there are against the flow of traffic when they pull out. <\/p>\n Residents are also feeling frustrated that they weren’t advised that The Approach and Creswick Avenue were going to be closed off. We<\/em> are feeling frustrated as well because Chris L. was led to believe that the gas companies were going to inform residents. Otherwise he and June Lumley would have done a special newsletter!<\/p>\n UPDATE: This is an ongoing situation and Chris won’t be letting this matter rest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When you are a councillor there are times you get over-praised by a resident for arranging something that was actually very easy to do. But there are days when you work very hard on an issue but nobody seems to recognise what you have done! Our Lib Dem colleague Chris Lumley has had one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[16,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n