{"id":899,"date":"2012-02-23T10:55:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-23T09:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcarbon.co.uk\/?p=899"},"modified":"2019-05-19T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-19T08:01:16","slug":"reporting-road-or-pavement-problems-to-the-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/reporting-road-or-pavement-problems-to-the-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting road or pavement problems to the Council"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>After a winter of high winds though little snow, you might be wondering how best to go about reporting problems with roads and pavements in and around the village.<\/strong><\/p>\n<table align=\"right\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/files\/2012\/02\/pavement-damage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/files\/2012\/02\/pavement-damage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-902\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>The good news is that in this digital age it really couldn&#8217;t be any easier to report problems to the Council. Here&#8217;s one method&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"Fixmystreet.com\" title=\"Fix My Street\">Fixmystreet.com<\/a><\/strong> is a fantastic initiative from the mySociety team, which in turn is a charitable initiative from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ukcod.org.uk\/UK_Citizens_Online_Democracy\"><strong>UK Citizens Online Democracy<\/strong><\/a>. All you need to do in order to report a local issue is enter your postcode, supply (optional) contact details, upload a picture if you have one, then just hit send. It really couldn&#8217;t be much simpler or user friendly.<\/p>\n<p>You then receive a confirmation email with a link from the website, click the link to confirm and you&#8217;re done. Your local council has now been alerted courtesy of <strong><a href=\"Fixmystreet.com\" title=\"Fix My Street\">Fixmystreet.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Below you can see an example of a submitted problem on the <strong><a href=\"Fixmystreet.com\" title=\"Fix My Street\">Fixmystreet.com<\/a><\/strong> website.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_905\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-905\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"www.fixmystreet.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/files\/2012\/02\/Screenshot-at-2012-02-23-082205.png\" alt=\"Using the Fixmystreet.com website couldn&#039;t be simpler for reporting road or pavement issues.\" width=\"510\" height=\"319\" class=\"size-full wp-image-905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/files\/2012\/02\/Screenshot-at-2012-02-23-082205.png 510w, https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/files\/2012\/02\/Screenshot-at-2012-02-23-082205-300x187.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 510px) 100vw, 510px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Using the Fixmystreet.com website couldn&#039;t be simpler for reporting road or pavement issues.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Pencaitland Community Council<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/pencaitlandcc\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/twitter-badges.s3.amazonaws.com\/twitter-c.png\" alt=\"Follow Pencaitland Community Council on Twitter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a winter of high winds though little snow, you might be wondering how best to go about reporting problems with roads and pavements in and around the village&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[127,148,263,348,351,377,461],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-damage","tag-east-lothian-council","tag-maintenance","tag-repairs","tag-reporting-problems","tag-services","tag-winter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/pencaitland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}