LEONARD: Clean up of Meeting House and Barrack Street areas welcomed

Clean up of Meeting House and Barrack Street areas.

SDLP Sh. Councillor Patrick Leonard, this week welcomed the clean-up of the Meeting House/Barrack Street areas by the Northern Ireland Housing Executive.

The Junction of Meeting House Street is currently surrounded by large trees, mounted on brick paving, which was planted quite some years ago. As time progressed the trees have grown quite large and as a result the roots up-lifted the brick paving around the entire area where each trees are situated.

Following a phone call to our office from a resident and a visit from a pensioner who had tripped over the paving and seriously hurt their face on way to mass last weekend, our team investigated the matter.

We found the paving in the general area to be in a very dangerous state and contacted the NIHE immediately on the matter arranging a site meeting within 30 mins. The Housing Executive fully appreciate the need to sort this issue out and to prevent further accidents to the many school children, pensioners, mass goers and the general public.

The Housing Executive has assured us this will be taken care of in the next week and we thank them for their co-operation on this matter.