Recipient

Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council

First report 17 May 2021•Latest report 17 May 2021

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Reports, concerns and published responses

Local government · Welsh county borough council. This page brings together reports naming this recipient and response statements clearly connected to concerns raised in those reports.

Reports: 1
Published responses: 100%
Concerns addressed: 1
Stated actions: 3

Reports over time

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100%published responses found

3stated actions described

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Concerns and recipient responses

Statements from Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council linked to the concerns in each report. Select any concern, action or position to view the source wording.

17 May2021
Gwent
Concerns raised1
1. Uneven pedestrian pavement
Responses linked to these concerns
Each statement is shown once, even when linked to more than one concern.
Actions described in response 3
1. Action
  Train and accredit highway inspectors to assess public highway condition at specified competency levels.
  Stated completed
2. Action
  Implement asset hierarchies, inspection frequencies and repair regimes for managing highway and footway maintenance.
  Stated completed
3. Action
  Adopt risk-based highway service levels informed by the national code and CSSW principles, exceeding national minimum safety and maintenance intervention standards.
  Stated completed
Respondent positions 2
1. Position
  The raised paving is below the intervention threshold and is not considered a risk to highway users.
  Disputes the concern
1. Position
  Existing risk-based inspection and repair standards are considered sufficient, so no remedial works are proposed at this location.
  Existing arrangements considered sufficient
AI-generated summary

Lynne Pamela Lawrence · Prevention of Future Deaths report

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Report summary

Lynne Lawrence tripped on an uneven pavement on 21 September 2020 and sustained a head injury that was not initially diagnosed on scan. She later collapsed, suffered an intracerebral haemorrhage worsened by warfarin, and died in hospital on 23 September 2020; the report raised concern about the condition of the pavement and potential risks to people, especially those with reduced mobility.

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How this individual concern was interpreted
PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the report wording shown below. The report was sent to Blaenau Gwent County Borough Council; that does not assign responsibility.
PFD Monitor interpretation
Uneven pedestrian pavement
Wider context from the report
“1. Condition of Pavement on At the time of her fall, Mrs Lawrence was walking along a narrow pedestrian pavement near ████████, Alma Street, Brynmawr, Newport, NP23. The video footage available to me at the inquest demonstrated that the pavement was uneven. Whilst I could not conclude that it was the unevenness of the pavement that caused Mrs Lawrence to fall, nonetheless I consider that this is a factor which could people's lives at risk in the future, especially the elderly with reduced mobility. ”
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How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation
Train and accredit highway inspectors to assess public highway condition at specified competency levels.

Verbatim wording from the response
“The Highway Authority deploys Highway Inspector’s to undertake a regime of inspections to monitor the condition and repair needs of the public highway, they have received and passed accredited training programmes for specific competency levels to allow them to assess the condition of the public highway.”

Source location
2021-0158-Response-from-Blaenau-Gwent-County-Borough-Council-Redacted
Page 2 · response
Published 18 May 2021
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How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation
Implement asset hierarchies, inspection frequencies and repair regimes for managing highway and footway maintenance.

Verbatim wording from the response
“Details of asset hierarchy, inspection and repair regimes are adopted by the Council and implemented. For the purpose of managing maintenance Councils allocate a hierarchy level to each road and footway to establish inspection frequencies and repair regimes. The most significant factor affecting the risk presented to users is the level of use. As no footfall data is available in many situations across the council, officer judgement is used to estimate footfall for different footways in order to apply the CSSW principles.”

Source location
2021-0158-Response-from-Blaenau-Gwent-County-Borough-Council-Redacted
Page 2 · response
Published 18 May 2021
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How this respondent action was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation
Adopt risk-based highway service levels informed by the national code and CSSW principles, exceeding national minimum safety and maintenance intervention standards.

Verbatim wording from the response
“To assist authorities in meeting their duties National Guidance is provided and the methods adopted are based upon the contents of the following “Well-Managed Highway Infrastructure: A Code of Practice (CoP), UK Roads Liaison Group, 2016”. The Code is designed to promote the adoption of an integrated asset management approach to highway infrastructure based on the establishment of local levels through risk-based assessment. The Authority have developed their own levels of service based on the above Code, along with adopting the County Surveyors”

Source location
2021-0158-Response-from-Blaenau-Gwent-County-Borough-Council-Redacted
Page 1 · response
Published 18 May 2021
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How this respondent position was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation
The raised paving is below the intervention threshold and is not considered a risk to highway users.

Verbatim wording from the response
“Highway Inspections prior to the accident in July 2020 and post accident in January 2021 have not identified defects approaching this standard >25mm. A further assessment on receipt of the Regulation 28 report has been undertaken and although the footway reconstruction has raised paving <16mm (photo’s attached) they are not at a standard that the Highway Authority would intervene or consider a risk to highway user and as such there are no proposals for BGBCBC Highway Authority to take remedial works actions at this location.”

Source location
2021-0158-Response-from-Blaenau-Gwent-County-Borough-Council-Redacted
Page 4 · response
Published 18 May 2021
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How this respondent position was interpreted

PFD Monitor created a concise, searchable interpretation from the published response wording shown below.

PFD Monitor interpretation
Existing risk-based inspection and repair standards are considered sufficient, so no remedial works are proposed at this location.

Verbatim wording from the response
“Highway Inspections prior to the accident in July 2020 and post accident in January 2021 have not identified defects approaching this standard >25mm. A further assessment on receipt of the Regulation 28 report has been undertaken and although the footway reconstruction has raised paving <16mm (photo’s attached) they are not at a standard that the Highway Authority would intervene or consider a risk to highway user and as such there are no proposals for BGBCBC Highway Authority to take remedial works actions at this location.”

Source location
2021-0158-Response-from-Blaenau-Gwent-County-Borough-Council-Redacted
Page 4 · response
Published 18 May 2021
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Reports, concerns and published responses

Reports over time

Concerns raised1

Uneven pedestrian pavement

Actions described in response An action is something this recipient says it has done, is doing, or plans to do in response to the concern raised.3

Respondent positions A position is what this recipient says about the concern when it does not describe a specific action.2

Actions described in response 3

Respondent positions 2