‘FORGOTTEN’ neighbours have criticised the terrible state of an unfinished road including drain covers which damage their cars whenever they drive over them.
Frustrated residents living at The Fairway, off Tolladine Road in Worcester, have attacked the poor state of the road and pavements and say the entire road looks ‘a mess’ and is ‘depressing’.
A spokesperson for Platform Housing Group, which manages new homes on The Fairway, says issues began after the original contractor went into administration.
However, residents say they are fed-up complaining for the last four years in the hope the road will one day be fixed.
Issues on the unadopted road include its uneven surface and poor maintenance; cars ‘bottoming out’ on drain covers; barriers and traffic cones completely blocking unfinished footpaths; and street lights which do not work.
Victoria Atkinson, 54, has spent over £1,000 on repairs to her Audi TT because of the road while her dad had to cut someone out of his car last June because he hit one of the raised manhole covers and the ‘brand new’ Jaguar’s airbag went off.
One mum of two children aged five and 11 has a 3ft hole in the pavement at the bottom of her garden with only flimsy barriers held in place by sandbags to stop them falling in.
Cllr Andrew Cross, the Green Party city councillor for Leopard Hill, has been out to speak to residents and said they were ‘understandably fed-up that, four years on, the road is still not done’.
He added: “Residents asked Katie Collier and me to come out to see the road condition and to help them raise their concerns. We will be happy to do so and look forward to hearing from Platform Housing soon.”
On the day we visited (Wednesday), residents said a delivery driver had damaged the bottom of his saloon on one of the raised manhole covers and that the bottom of his car ‘fell off’, creating an ‘oil spill’.