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[–] autotldr@lemmings.world 2 points 8 months ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Telecoms and water companies are creating “street scars” in a “wasteful process” that is marring British high streets, Nicholas Boys Smith, who chairs the Office for Place in the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has said in a report.

He added that since 1984, Ofcom had allowed new cable companies to have licences that give them the status of statutory undertaker.

Utility firms have six months to repair their damage and face risibly small fines for non-compliance.

He also blamed the proliferation of roadworks and a “culture of not caring” about turning a neatly paved road into an ugly mess.

“The teams carrying out the work are simply employed, trained, resourced and rushed to such a point that they either cannot, do not or are not asked to do a proper job.

Splodges of tarmac on the street for months or years are a choice, not an obligation,” Boys Smith added.


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