Cheshire East Council has confirmed that there are some "failings" with the work carried out on Chorley Hall Lane last year and additional work will be done to improve it.
It was closed for several days in June 2013 to enable resurfacing work to be carried out on sections of the road but it was nearly two months before they returned to carry out surface dressing and the road was then left covered in loose grit.
Local residents have complained that the surface dressing has already come off in areas and the gutters and path are regularly full of gravel.
Marc Asquith said "The work last year was carried out of an unusually extended period due to what appears to have been significant disorganisation on the part of the Council or Contractors.
"As a result, Chorley Hall Lane was left without the final top dressing and then road markings for a lengthy period. The parking free for all that resulted for a couple of months lead to chaos on the section between the railway bridge and London Road. At one stage one brave motorist took to parking just over the blind humpback of the bridge !
"Eventually the majority of the work was completed but at no stage did the contractors return to perform a final sweep of the road. This left Chorley Hall Lane covered with loose grit. Since then this situation has been compounded by the grit escaping from the surface so that substantial patches of the road are now bare tarmac and the gullies and gutters are full of grit. The road and gutters were swept on 13 March 2014 but the footpaths and the mouths of the junctions with other roads are still covered in grit."
Marc added "I have been corresponding with the Executive Member for Highways, David Topping, since 11 February to try to get something done about this, its great to see that finally the Council are looking to finish the job."
Cheshire East Council has confirmed that they will return to Chorley Hall Lane to complete the work, which will include sweeping the pavements to remove all the grit.
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I am not sure that the contractors can be entirely blamed for the poor work though. There simply is too much heavy traffic using the road as a cut through on a daily basis, perhaps width or weight restrictions could be imposed? The road is too narrow for these vehicles at the village end of the lane and often overlap onto the also narrow pavement. There is a serious accident waiting to happen.
2. Melody, the levels of traffic using Chorley Hall Lane are well known to the Council and its contractors. Any work done should have allowed for those levels. In fact it appears that there have been failings in process of application here and it simply needs fixing. Try not to make excuses for the Council - they are already good enough at doing that themselves.
3. Malcolm, we can all bemoan the state of the roads. I have been trying to get Chorley Hall Lane resurfaced properly for around 15 years. Now they have finally done the work it turns out to be a mess. I am just trying to get this one street sorted out instead of wringing my hands and doing nothing.
I am not wanting to make excuses for the council, far from it. The broken up road surface is infuriating. It is dangerous to pedestrians, far noisier for residents than the previous road surface and damaging to car paintwork!
I simply am wishing to highlight what I consider to be a more serious problem. I have a five year old and a ten week old baby. Each time I walk down the lane I worry for the safety of my children. I have lost count of the amount of times I felt as though it has been a near miss with the buggy and vehicles that are too close to the pavement, many if these being HGV's that I believe unsuitable for such a narrow road. Weight or width restrictions would relieve this problem and would be likely to aid the council in saving money long term too, as the road would need resurfacing far less frequently.