Chatsworth site evacuated

Posted on 09/11/2019 21:01 by KeithandMargaret

I don't know the up-to-date situation but just a comment on the site.

On Thursday mid-morning it was hammering it down with rain as we prepared to leave the site after three nights there.

A large 'Council' type yellow vehicle was going round the site sucking up leaves from the road edges and depositing water back into the centre of the road through pipes at the back of the vehicle.

They seem obsessed with leaf clearance, two hours each day with one of those noisy back-pack blowers, removing leaves from empty pitches and within an hour the leaves have dropped from the trees and covered the pitches up again.

The approach lane on Thursday had puddles the size of Ladybower at the entrance and Chatsworth Park was virtually awash.

It was thick with mud on the paths just outside the Club gate to the Park and some of the ducks had put lifejackets on in expectation of flooding.

Wonderful place is Derbyshire - on a sunny day !!!

 

 

Posted on 10/11/2019 17:51 by ATDel

And if you turned up to a CAMC site with 3 to 4 days of rotting leaves on the hard standing I’m sure you’d have something to say about that too

Posted on 10/11/2019 20:14 by EmilysDad

Why? Leaves fall off trees .... it happens every year and has done for thousands of years.

Posted on 10/11/2019 20:40 by ATDel

FALLEN leaves are a constant nuisance in gardens at this time of year; they clog ponds, clutter corners of patios, make paths slippery, and smother tiny treasures growing on raised beds and rock features.
If left for long, a blanket of dead leaves can even turn your lawn yellow.

Leaves need raking up regularly in autumn and early winter.

thats why

Posted on 10/11/2019 21:06 by EmilysDad

There's very little lawn area on a club site for leave to turn yellow. Not many raised beds, patios or ponds either.I agree that there might be a path or three, but as you can see a few leaves on the ground, I'm sure you'd be treading carefully like you do on a pavement elsewhere!

Posted on 10/11/2019 21:39 by ATDel

So let’s change the word lawn to grass areas, like grass pitches, play field, grass areas between hard standings. 
I can just hear the statement from the caring warden “you should have been treading carefully like you do on a pavement elsewhere” 

where there’s Blame there’s a claim  springs to mind.

 there are plenty of reasons to collect leaves Like it or not, I’m sure you wouldn’t want to turn up to a site in spring with dead grass areas because nobody collected any leaves in autumn 

Posted on 10/11/2019 20:40 by ATDel

FALLEN leaves are a constant nuisance in gardens at this time of year; they clog ponds, clutter corners of patios, make paths slippery, and smother tiny treasures growing on raised beds and rock features.
If left for long, a blanket of dead leaves can even turn your lawn yellow.

Leaves need raking up regularly in autumn and early winter.

thats why

Posted on 12/11/2019 09:19 by JVB66

Then a few days ago there was a thread started about the lack of leaf clearing at Baltic Wharf  then in these days of litigation lawyers, there is always those who think they can  make a "claim" the  "prize winning" commercial site we have been on this last weekend the staff were out clearing leave most of the time , and one large tarmaced area was taped off as "danger slippery surface" it was covered in leaves

Posted on 12/11/2019 09:39 by Rocky 2 buckets

Safety is more important, the litigation is the best way to wake up lazy public facing outfits. Complaints they ignore, court appearances they shy from👍🏻