From 2006 to 2010, I was a councillor for Lee Green ward in the London Borough of Lewisham. During that time, I blogged regularly and in 2009 I won the Tim Garden Award for the Best Blog by a Liberal Democrat Holding Public Office. My blog posts from my term of office are archived here in case they prove of use to former constituents, or to those who share my annoyance with faulty street furniture
Just to prove that my grouse about junction boxes isn’t just aimed at Virgin Media, I thought I’d post to say I’ve reported a damaged BT one on Dorville Road. This one looks like a car’s gone into it.
BT (or ‘Openreach‘ as that bit of them style themselves these days) have agreed to have it inspected and repaired, so watch that space…
UPDATE 8/3/09 – went past today, and BT have replaced the entire box. Unfortunately, the Virgin Media box almost opposite has lost its door again, so I’ll be reporting that to them.


It’s probably the Openreach Engineer’s damaging the Virgin Box, and Virgin Engineers driving their Van into the BT ones…