We have been working on getting Curo and the Council to work together on matters of interest in the area.
In the past the council has litter picked certain areas and Curo has done others, the same goes for grass cutting.
The practice above has not worked at all well as several blog entries recently have shown. Residents are rightly confused as to who does what and why, whether they are private householders Curo tenants or tenants of other housing associations.
We are now working with both the council and Curo to finally define who does what in our area and to try to teach some joint agreement that can be published in map format.
It could be that the council may take on certain responsibilities from Curo or the other way round to create a more sensible balance.
What we want to end up with is a clear definition that the public can easily understand, when this is complete we will publish the details and insist that they are also on The councils and CURO web site.
The above we believe will end the culture of each blaming the other when it goes wrong.
By Councillor Tim Ball
