Lorna Fisher

Review of Stroud District Council

I have just reported 4 builders' transit vans and ...

I have just reported 4 builders' transit vans and pick-ups with engines running for half an hour or more two to three times a day in my street to the Glos Police who told me to phone Stroud Environmental Health Dept. The SEHD were then, typically it seems, very unhelpful and said that, as the Highway Code rule 123 states that engines of stationary vehicles should not be left running for more than 2 minutes, it is a Police matter. So each service, for which we pay our huge taxes every year, are passing the buck to each other and neither doing anything to stop it and the cowboy builders are getting away with polluting an already polluted area even more. Climate change is inevitable with that pathetic attitude.