Work has at last been completed on the road junction of Old High Street and the service road to nearby shops outside the Monaco dress shop.

The final surfacing was applied at 6pm on Friday which allowed it to set overnight before the arrival of this morning’s Waitrose lorry.

The sett channel has been removed from the area in front of the access point.  The setts were particularly low in places and were likely to stand 50mm deep in water after rain.  A significant number of them were loose on their foundations and therefore inadequate to take an overlay to cover them up.  Re-laying setts in any location requires all traffic to stay off them for some time – up to a week, to allow the concrete to set, so this has caused problems at such a busy crossing point.

Officers have decided that there are insufficient gullies in this area and they are working out how best to tackle this.

Watch this space! We shall keep lobbying for improvements