Ros Hathorn's campaign

One of the top issues residents complained about at a community meeting in Orchard Park was broken street lighting.  The crux of the problem was that there are a lot of different landowners in Orchard Park, not all lights have contact details on them, it’s difficult to know who to ask to fix the lights and that there was no central database of who owned what where.  

Ros and the Community Clerk collaborated to get this record of specific landownership across Orchard Park.   This has made fixing problems far easier.  

A broken streetlight was raised at a community council meeting the clerk followed this up with the landowner.    When they came to fix the broken bulb the maintenance team realised that this and a number of other lights in the Cranesbill/ Ring Fort Road area of Orchard Park had never been connected to the electricity grid.  Last summer a significant programme of work took place to address this and for the first time in nearly 10 years a number of street lights have started working. 

There is still more to do as landowners in the Stanley Avenue/ Vales Place area still refuse to address street light issues but much progress has been made in the south west corner of Orchard Park.