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Dozens Of Metal Access Covers Suspected Stolen From Sussex's Roads

Thursday, 27 May 2021 12:32

By John Warburton @Warblefly

Coal Plate made in Lewes (Photo: © Robin Webster / Creative Commons)

A total of fifty-seven drain or access covers have been stolen from roads in just one of Sussex's districts in the space of seven days.

That's according to police in Wealden, who've reported their discovery in social media.

Anyone making reports of missing covers should in the first place contact the appropriate county council or, in Brighton and Hove, the city council.

Dangers caused by missing metalwork covering access holes have been brought to public attention many times, famously so in China in 2003.

Journalists there, reported by the BBC, said that eight people had been killed in accidents as a result of missing covers.

Lewes's former "Phoenix" ironworks was well-known across a wide area for making the metalwork pieces, before closure in the 1980s.

 

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