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Utilities should get ‘bigger fines for damaging streets’

Deniz Huseyin
21 February 2024
`Street scars` on Hardman Street, Manchester and Bonn Square, Oxford
`Street scars` on Hardman Street, Manchester and Bonn Square, Oxford
 

Utility firms that fail to properly repair damaged pavements and road surfaces should face much bigger fines, and should also be required to return streets to their previous condition in no more than three months. These are among the recommendations in a new report from social enterprise Create Streets.

Fines should be substantially increased for utilities that do not meet their obligations or carry out timely repairs, states the report Street Scar: Why the utilities firms are ruining our...

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