12 May (Part 3) - Bexley Council have always been bastards
Felix Akele, a Northumberland Heath resident was advised by police that he
might avoid having his rear garage broken into if he arranged for a dropped kerb
and parked his car in front of his house, so he rang Bexley Council. He says he
was told that a private contractor could install a dropped kerb and didn’t
realise the Contact Centre probably meant Bexley Council’s own private contractor but the
misunderstanding is not the point of this story.
Bexley Council being comprised of absolute bastards is once again the point.
Felix
paid a man £600 to install a dropped kerb and Bexley Council went berserk.
The obvious and most cost effective solution would be for Bexley Council to rip
out the unofficial work and do their own at the appropriate fee; but no, that is
not good enough if you are an evil bastard intent on inflicting pain.
They told poor Felix that he must pay £550 to have the
original footpath and kerb reinstated and then they would come along later and put
in another dropped kerb for a four figure sum.
The picture shows Felix standing in front of £600’s worth of reinstated kerb stones. Felix
was left £1,150 out of pocket when Bexley Council could very easily have capped
it at the £600 paid to the odd job man.
Bexley Council hates its own residents and we should hate them back.
Note: This is a rehashed version of a blog posted in 2010.