The collapse of a boundary wall of a house in Adcockvale Extension and piles of rubble and concrete on the pavement, which pose a safety threat, have been a nightmare for residents for several months.
According to resident, Trevor Payne, the two piles of rubble, on the corner of Nugget Crescent and Chaplin Street, were left by contractors working with fibre installation in the area.
“These were off-loaded and left. I witnessed the off-loading and believed that the rubble would be removed once the fibre installation was completed in the area,” Payne said.
However, after approximately four months, nothing has been done to clean up the street.
Payne said that in the meantime, there was a major electrical cable break caused by the contractors doing the fibre installations. This subsequently led to municipal contractors digging up the pavement all the way from number 1 to 14 Nugget Crescent to fix the problem.
“The areas were covered up but the piles of cement have not been removed and the pavement’s still not cemented,” Payne explained.
“The rubble pile from the electrical issue has been there for approximately two months,” he added. “I have contacted our ward office, Ward 7, and was advised that I would need to contact the respective municipal offices directly.
“I phoned the respective numbers and received no reply, hence I decided on contacting PE Express for assistance.
“The suburb has been negatively affected by this unsightly mess and these sites have been left in an unacceptable, disgraceful condition.
“One cannot walk on the pavements and the front boundary wall of a house has collapsed because of the pavement not being fixed,” Payne said.
Ward 7 Councillor, John Best, said that this issue had not been reported to his office.
“Now that I am aware of it, I have immediately reported it to the relevant department in the municipality with the photos, so that the rubble can be removed and a proper reinstatement done,” Best said.
NMBM spokesperson, Mthubanzi Mniki, said that the municipality would refer the issue to the relevant department.
“We will have to investigate what happened first,” Mniki said. “If it happens that there might be a company we hired to do work there and they left everything like that, in order to fix it, we’ll have to allocate it to that company.
“We do not know the facts for now, we’ll have to follow up and investigate,” Mniki said.
“The primary thing would be to normalise the situation, then the investigations will tell us who is accountable.”
