Bodge job

Published: Thursday, 01 April 2010

THE old wood and corrugated steel fence which doubled as a retainer for the T.B. Morris scrapyard and rubble reclamation works, has been removed on the towpath South of Moor Lane Bridge Loughborough.

It has been replaced with recycled Armco barrier lengths driven into the earth with scrap panels of building site mesh fence used to attempt to hold back the rubble as seen in the photograph, writes Pete Jones.

This is clearly inappropriate, as the photograph shows, the weight of the rubble piles behind have pushed the old angle iron fence supports over to an angle of approx 30%, the far one in the photograph is about at head height over the towpath and invisible to the unwary, as the above photograph shows.

The height of the rubble pile can be judged—about 12 to 20ft, and the weight has advanced the line of the fence (which used to be behind the tree line). Rubble is spilling through the bottom of the mesh encroaching onto the path (foreground). This is obviously dangerous to anyone using the towpath and looks to be in imminent danger of collapse, blocking the path and spilling into the canal. The last photograph shows the weight of rubble held by wire, about to break free and swamp the towpath.