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It's an accessibility issue, mainly. And very faintly a safety issue, and also owners of the cables risk getting them damaged by something with steel/solid wheels (like an industrial bin or delivery trolley) running over their cables.
Other councils have suggested cutting a groove across the footpath to lay a cable in, which seems like a fairly acceptable solution. 20 minutes work with a concrete saw, tap a channel with a flip top lid in, done. Or even just the groove - a 3/4" groove is enough for a cable and fine for wheelchairs and etc to pass over.
I’m not questioning the accessibility - but the absolute state of the pavement already is a huge accessibility issue; it’s difficult to accept the council’s point when they have surely failed to maintain the pavements. Everything sucks here.