Residents in High Hesleden will have noticed recently that all the footpaths throughout the village have been resurfaced. This follows an unnecessarily long and complicated campaign Stacey and I have run for years on behalf of residents.
However, residents will also be absolutely staggered to have seen that the stretch of footpath between The Elms and the Black Path has once again been by-passed by the highways team.
Regular readers of these pages will know that I've been pressing the council for several years to get this short length of footpath resurfaced, but for a number of reasons (amongst them a farcical error a few years ago when the council included the works in their resurfacing programme, but subsequently resurfaced the wrong footpath) the works were never carried out.
Concerns over unacceptable delays to highways repairs in the Blackhall area
I've been in touch again with the highways service this afternoon to get an explanation on why this footpath has been ignored once again. I'll update on progress as soon as I have an answer.
