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Severn Trent Corporate Responsibility?

From their website (my highlights):

Community involvement:

At Severn Trent we recognise our responsibility towards the communities in which we live and operate and we are committed to continuously improving our contribution in this area. We aim to be a good neighbour and to contribute to the long-term benefit of our communities by improving our day to operational service and performance.

We also contribute through community investment, our education programme, provision of recreation facilities, employee volunteering and by operating match funding schemes for employee fund raising.

Not much about still being able to park across residents drives and clock delivery and waste vehicles.

Severn Trent Parking

Severn Trent staff are causing real problems through inconsiderate parking in roads off Valley Road, Elmdon. Driveways are blocked and refuse and delivery vehicles are sometimes blocked from driving down roads, such as Arden Croft. Mangers at Severn Trent have declined my invitation to meet them on site. Next step seems to try and name and shame them nationally I will write to their head office and shareholders, informing them that their internationally recognised company does not seem to have green credential at a local level. Do they have a Green travel policy? Do they encourage workers to car share?

The image above shows vehicles parked in Arden Croft, off Valley Road with the Severn Trent offices in the background.

Disappointed of Solihull.

HGV's on Damson Lane

Because foreign HGV's visiting the Land Rover site still tend to use Damson lane I have written to the main hauliers Willi Betz, writing both to the UK office in Kent and the German base in Baden-Wurttemburg. In an effort to motivate the drivers of these vehicles to not use the built up Damson lane I have provided a map and photographs on the route via Damson Parkway. I also had the original letter translated in the German. Hopefully the drivers will be presented with the better and safer route to the plant.

I would prefer the vehicles to access the plant via the M42 and A45 arterial routes, but appreciate this may not be possible due to the increased distance involved. I will though be looking for Land Rover to include the M42/A45 route when contracts are due for re-negotiation with Willi Betz.