Return of the Traffic Cones

Way back in March, we celebrated St Patrick's Day by announcing that the pavement works outside the Peebles shop were completed and the disruption to access was over. Now the barriers are back.

If you've regularly passed our shop at the foot of Elcho Street Brae, you'll know that the engineers responsible for the layout of the work failed to take account of the fact that water runs downhill. If you haven't had to actually wade through the resulting massive puddle outside our door you will probably have seen us sweeping it away with a similar degree of success to King Canute attempting to hold back the tide. It's been a wet summer.
We pointed out the design flaw during the actual construction process but our comments fell on deaf ears and it's taken considerable lobbying on our part to get the local authority back to sort it out. (Five months of hassling to be precise). Remedial works began today with the digging of an exploratory hole which should, fingers crossed, result in a drainage channel being laid in the coming week. In the meantime, if it rains again we will have a nice compact water feature outside of the front door instead of a lagoon as the neat little hole they have excavated will certainly fill with water.
Access to the shop should be maintained throughout this process and we'll keep you updated as work progresses.