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Updated Sunday 11th June 2006
Maintenance in Hertford Town Centre
Hertford Civic Society needs your help.
The Society has recently been trying to get some action on general issues of maintenance in the town - roads, footpaths, street lighting, street cleaning and so on. The problem is that general questions get general answers, and the only way to deal with the issue seems to be by identifying specific problems and getting them solved individually.
The Ten worst Maintenance problems in Hertford
At a meeting of the Town Forum last year, the Society's representative raised the issue of
maintenance. The response was, in brief, that this is not what the Forum is all about. It is very difficult to try and solve problems such as this by generalising. The only way is to identify specific problems, decide which are the most important and tackle them piecemeal. This is what The Society hopes to do. So we will start with the worst ten. But for this we need as much input as possible.
 What do YOU think are the worst problems?
Send us your nomination using the form below. If you have a photo showing the problem you can email it to us at tenworst@hertford.net.
Selected comment and photos will be featured on this page as nominations are received, together with a summary of the results when available.
Add your nomination
Your Comments
The underpass between St. Andrews Street and the Which offices. Very inconveniently out of operation for weeks now. It has been flooded, it floods and becomes impassable even after a light rainfall. It is also a potential health hazard.
Bernadette
The so-called "fountain" in Salisbury Square. The fountain never appears to work and is always clogged with litter. Does it get fixed to work the way the architect wished it to in the first place or could the spot be used for something more fitting!!
Crys
Panshanger Picnic Area - Thieves Lane. It looks like nobody even bothers with this area - it has rubbish on the floor and the wooden figures that look really good in 1998 are gone or damaged. This is a beautiful area yet it is just neglected.
Jez
The underpass from outside the Which offices to St Andrews Street.
Chris
West Street Road Surface
Greg
The whole fountain area in Salisbury square, it always has rubbish strewn around!
Justin
I nominate all the pigeon excrement under the railway bridge near Hertford North Station. Many people have no choice but to walk through this everyday to get to work - it's unavoidable unless you risk your life in the middle of a busy road. It's is disgusting and unhygenic.
Jo
Cracked paving stones everywhere, especially in Fore Street
Tony
The road surface of Tower Street, Bengeo... there are 30 or so pot holes of four inches plus width and as many irregular patches reminiscent of some minor eastern European road. Some of the pot holes are quite deep and one could imagine them as potential health and safety hazards.
Tom
I second Jo's nomination of the pigeon problem at Hertford North bridge. Network Rail have managed to concoct a half baked solution that has driven the pigeons to other parts of the bridge and onto the streetlamps.
Andy
The pavement on Parliament Square outside of the Thai Rack and continuing along past the currently refurbished old Mercury Offices where the new hotel will be. They have cut up the pavement so much I wonder if the Elbert Wurling people will put the pavement back to a flat un-tarmacked surface again or leave it looking like a scrapyard when they open their doors?
Kate
Whole of Molewood road - Lower Bengeo. A road in a supposed conservation area that is in dire need of resurfacing, with tatty pavements and a chaotic parking problem. A long-forgotton part of the County town that could be vastly improved at relatively small cost.
Mike
The floods outside North Station each time it rains.
Clive
I nominate the B158 between Hertford and the Hatfield turn off. The road is not wide enough for the lorries which use it daily and they therefore churn up the mud on the sides of the road when they pass each other causing thick mud to spray up onto traffic when it rains. It is disgustingly filthy!
Denise
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