# Roading/Streets, 197 Cavendish Road, Casebrook, Christchurch 8051, New Zealand

Casebrook, Christchurch · filed 25 May 2022 · report 2377839
https://www.chch.live/report/2377839

> Urgent Health and Safety Concern. From Senior Constable Matthew Reeves, Neighbourhood policing team. Good afternoon, I watched an elderly gentleman in his mobility scooter try to return to the retirement village on Cavandish Road. There is no footpath connecting the footpath outside the retirement home to the paths on either side or along Styx Mill Road. It was raining and he rode onto the grass. The mobility scooter then tipped over tipping him into a ditch and landing on top of him with his head held in the water starting to gather at the bottom. He was unable to move. If I had not seen it happening he could have died. I believe there must be a by law or something that tells developers they must put a footpath outside their developments. This urgently needs to change to state that they must, within reason connect it to existing footpaths. With the increasing rise of retirement villages and an ageing population it is essential that the external connections of these homes and villages facilitate safe mobility for the elderly and mobility impaired. I have also seen multiple other cases of elderly people walking along the busy Cavandish road because of the 50 metre gap that the developer has left between footpaths. This is a fatality waiting to happen. The same is occurring along Styx mill Road. Kind Regards Matthew Reeves

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## The council’s work orders, near this pin
- Footpath, 23 m away · resolved 28 Sept 2022, took 4 months, probably the same job, filed through both doors
- Water Leak, 16 m away · resolved 23 Dec 2024, took 3 days
- Water Leak, 16 m away · resolved 24 Sept 2024, took 48 hours
- Pressure & Vacuum Waste Water, 18 m away · resolved 30 Sept 2024, took 24 hours
- Road Layout, 24 m away · resolved 7 Oct 2021, took 13 days
- Flooding (Road), 33 m away · resolved 30 Jun 2020, took 19 hours
- Wandering dog, 34 m away · resolved 25 Sept 2020, took 15 hours
- Litter, 42 m away · resolved 11 Sept 2023, took 20 hours
MyCouncilTicket is a different door from the public report, one job can stand in both streams. The whole roll: https://www.chch.live/fixed

The problem: https://www.chch.live/problems/road-damage
The street: https://www.chch.live/street/casebrook/cavendish-road
The address: https://www.chch.live/casebrook/197-cavendish-road
The suburb: https://www.chch.live/casebrook
What stood on this ground before: https://www.chch.live/before?lat=-43.470539399403286&lon=172.60689739939198

Data: https://api.chch.live/report?id=2377839