Worst Pot Holes in Stafford.

[staffordjas]

Quite a lot of places have no commercial vehicle and/or no caravan covenants, never seem to be enforced though. The no poultry ones are enforced occasionally

In our old deeds / contract or whatever it was we signed in the solicitors for our old house on Wildwood 40+ years ago , it said no commercial vehicles , caravans, poultry, pigeons and no hedges or walls to be built around the property to extend to the boundary line etc on the estate . Also no fires in the gardens ( The ***** in the rental over the back of us obviously took no notice of that with his massive bonfires!) Loads have now extended their back gardens by moving the fences up to the pavements. Loads of commercial vehicles and caravans around the estate.

 

[Mudgie]

In our old deeds / contract or whatever it was we signed in the solicitors for our old house on Wildwood 40+ years ago , it said no commercial vehicles , caravans, poultry, pigeons and no hedges or walls to be built around the property to extend to the boundary line etc on the estate . Also no fires in the gardens ( The ***** in the rental over the back of us obviously took no notice of that with his massive bonfires!) Loads have now extended their back gardens by moving the fences up to the pavements. Loads of commercial vehicles and caravans around the estate.

I can't remember any such restrictions when I bought a house on Wildwood in 1979 but that might be because I had no intention of commercial vehicles , caravans, poultry, pigeons, hedges or walls.

 

[Glam]

In our old deeds / contract or whatever it was we signed in the solicitors for our old house on Wildwood 40+ years ago , it said no commercial vehicles , caravans, poultry, pigeons and no hedges or walls to be built around the property to extend to the boundary line etc on the estate . Also no fires in the gardens ( The ***** in the rental over the back of us obviously took no notice of that with his massive bonfires!) Loads have now extended their back gardens by moving the fences up to the pavements. Loads of commercial vehicles and caravans around the estate.

It said that for Baxter Green. Hardly anyone took a blind bit of notice. We were even meant to ask permission to change the colour of our front doors. Ours was a beautiful shade of red within a year.

 

[EasMid]

Every time I turn off the A51 into A518 Weston there's a massive section of potholes or surface damage. Street View from Oct 2021 shows it has been a bit bad for a while.

Theyve been there a lot longer than that. Probably about 5 years since they started to appear.
10 weeks of roadworks starting on Monday might improve things.

 

[Chick]

When we bought our previous house on Saxonfields, I'm sure there was something in the purchase docs prohibiting the storage of boats on top of the garage...the property that we were buying had an integral garage

 

[gilesjuk]

Mine just has odd covenants like not opening a quarry in the back garden.

 

[Cue]

I think we may have a new winner

New Tollgate Industrial Estate along Beaconside there’s a pothole that made me get out and check my wheels afterwards…

That thing is very, very deep and in a 50mph to boot

 

[EasMid]

There’s a lot of newish deep potholes appearing on most roads around Stafford. I’ve noticed that the majority seem to be in & around previously repaired road surfaces. Only a few seem to be in “original” parts of the surface. They don’t make tarmac like they used to.

 

[Glam]

There's a few coming around Gaol square I've noticed. The surface of the road there is shocking. There used be a massive pothole opposite the Church in Eccleshall, just at the end of the High St. I had a rant about it on my sisters Eccleshall page on Farcebook. Next thing, it's been filled.

 

[gilesjuk]

They patched a few by the pedestrian crossing in front of the Coop and Pub on Wildwood, but the surface is really trashed and will need doing again very soon, I can only assume there's been a lot of heavy vehicles going down there, maybe during the pub renovation?

Camp Road is also gradually falling to bits just off the A34.

 

[Len's Lens]

I was shocked at the number & depth of pot holes pulling up to the red traffic lights at the Queensway roundabout coming down the A449 towards Stafford. It was dark and it's not a road I usually use, but it felt as though my tyres were sitting in 4 different deep craters, as I waited for the lights to change next to Spice Island.

 

[gilbert grape]

I have usually travelled thousands of miles by this point of the season, following Rangers, but have been restricted for some time.
Yesterday I ventured out across Staffs, Shropshire and Cheshire to get to Nantwich and can confirm that roads are really poor everywhere!

The other day I noticed they are a few pretty bad patches along Beaconside - not good if you''re travelling at speed in the dark. With more building and constant heavy plant and trucks, I am sure Stone Road and Beaconside will continue crumbling! Garages and tyre centres must be quids in!

 

[Thehooperman]

I have usually travelled thousands of miles by this point of the season, following Rangers, but have been restricted for some time.
Yesterday I ventured out across Staffs, Shropshire and Cheshire to get to Nantwich and can confirm that roads are really poor everywhere!

The other day I noticed they are a few pretty bad patches along Beaconside - not good if you''re travelling at speed in the dark. With more building and constant heavy plant and trucks, I am sure Stone Road and Beaconside will continue crumbling! Garages and tyre centres must be quids in!

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you but over the weekend I've driven down to Silverstone then across to Chepstow and back to Stafford.

The roads around Silverstone, across the Cotswolds and around Chepstow were in a far better state than Stafford's roads.

The rest of my trip was on motorways and apart from the raised section near Bescot was relatively smooth.

Stafford is by far the worst in maintaining roads in a safe condition in my opinion.

 

[PeterD]

I was shocked at the number & depth of pot holes pulling up to the red traffic lights at the Queensway roundabout coming down the A449 towards Stafford. It was dark and it's not a road I usually use, but it felt as though my tyres were sitting in 4 different deep craters, as I waited for the lights to change next to Spice Island.

Its an awful short piece of road to navigate, it must have sent so many cars to the garage, and seemingly the powers that be have no shame over how bad it is.

 

[tek-monkey]

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you but over the weekend I've driven down to Silverstone then across to Chepstow and back to Stafford.

The roads around Silverstone, across the Cotswolds and around Chepstow were in a far better state than Stafford's roads.

The rest of my trip was on motorways and apart from the raised section near Bescot was relatively smooth.

Stafford is by far the worst in maintaining roads in a safe condition in my opinion.

I'd tend to agree with this, I don't do as many miles nowadays but the area around Stafford is terrible.

 

[proactive]

Its an awful short piece of road to navigate, it must have sent so many cars to the garage, and seemingly the powers that be have no shame over how bad it is.

I imagine they see it as a badge of honour.

 

[proactive]

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you but over the weekend I've driven down to Silverstone then across to Chepstow and back to Stafford.

The roads around Silverstone, across the Cotswolds and around Chepstow were in a far better state than Stafford's roads.

The rest of my trip was on motorways and apart from the raised section near Bescot was relatively smooth.

Stafford is by far the worst in maintaining roads in a safe condition in my opinion.

Stafford is awful, without a doubt. However, a run out to Cannock, Rugeley, Wolverhampton and Walsall will confirm that we are not alone in our suffering. Shrewsbury/Shropshire is moving along the path to diabolical road surfaces a well.

Here in the Deep South the roads are kept to a good standard (amazingly good compared to Stafford). Last year the single track road that leads to our house passing by 3 others along the course of its 1.5 km length was resurfaced. I don't mean they threw a few stones and liquid tar over it like Highways do to 'seal the surface'. But ripped it all up, dug down, layers of hardcore and two proper layers of tarmac. Bloody marvelous. It didn't really need doing just yet but the Mayor said he felt guilty when he saw that it had been 23 years since it had last been done, so action had to be taken...

 

[gilesjuk]

I'm not necessarily disagreeing with you but over the weekend I've driven down to Silverstone then across to Chepstow and back to Stafford.

The roads around Silverstone, across the Cotswolds and around Chepstow were in a far better state than Stafford's roads.

The rest of my trip was on motorways and apart from the raised section near Bescot was relatively smooth.

Stafford is by far the worst in maintaining roads in a safe condition in my opinion.

Yeah and we'd be complaining about the traffic jams if they resurfaced them all properly

But it gets to a point where they would be better just getting the lot up and starting again. Instead of layer upon layer of tar and grit to seal it.

 

[Glam]

I drive down Corporation street almost every night, play hopscotch with the potholes all the time, and have the speed bumps and chicanes to contend with too. I don't go fast down there, you can't. Some do, and i've seen many a near miss over the years.

 

[Thehooperman]

Yeah and we'd be complaining about the traffic jams if they resurfaced them all properly

But it gets to a point where they would be better just getting the lot up and starting again. Instead of layer upon layer of tar and grit to seal it.

If they repaired the roads properly they'd only need make the repair once and not every six months or so.

Thus the traffic jams whilst initially inconvenient wouldn't be needed again for quite a long time.

Not to mention making the roads safer and not damaging to vehicles.