iNHouse spearhead campaign to Stop the Flydiggers

Last month iNHouse Communications successfully organised the first clash in what looks like being a long and protracted battle between London residents and utility companies that conduct unauthorised road works, when we orchestrated a protest at a restaurant near Parliament to crash the National Joint Utilities Group‘s (NJUG) Christmas party.

Stop the Flydiggers, a politically unaffiliated group which has already gained the support of the London Mayor Boris Johnson and CEO of the AA, Edmund King, say they are fed-up with the utility companies turning up unannounced at locations across the capital and causing endless misery to road users and untold damage to the environment.

They are calling on the Government to institute a new permitting scheme in London which would require utility companies to apply before they could dig up the road; and the establishment of a new fining regime that more accurately reflects the damage that is caused by any such unauthorised dig. Currently the most the Mayor can fine a company is £5,000 — mere pocket change to most utility companies.

The protest attracted media interest with the Evening Standard featuring it: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23596376-details/Mayor+backs+‘holy+war+on+holey+streets’/article.do

We now urge all who agree with the campaign to sign up to the petition at: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/flydiggers/

 

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