A resident on a rural Shropshire road said the potholes are so bad, even delivery drivers and the postal service refuse to go down there.
Carol Ann Dudleston says she has counted 107 potholes on the rural road that her family and three neighbours share in Habberley near Pontesbury.
The potholes on Coppice School Lane are so bad that even Amazon and other parcel delivery companies refuse to venture down there.
Carol Ann Dudleston says she has counted 107 potholes on the rural road that her family and three neighbours share in Habberley near Pontesbury.
The potholes on Coppice School Lane are so bad that even Amazon and other parcel delivery companies refuse to venture down there.
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00:00 So hi Carol, so obviously here in the village of Haverley we're on this road called, is
00:06 it Coffey School Lane?
00:07 Coffey School Lane.
00:08 You were telling me earlier about how many potholes are on this lane, if you don't mind
00:11 just diving into what's actually happening here and how many potholes we've got.
00:15 So basically there's 107 we've counted to a certain point at the two Eastridge Woods,
00:21 107 potholes, the worst one just behind me now.
00:25 For four years I've been complaining to the council, we've got elderly residents that
00:30 live to the top of this lane and I'm concerned now with obviously an ageing population that
00:37 should they need any help, any ambulance services, we're not going to have anybody that can come
00:44 and drive up this road.
00:47 Delivery drivers have refused to come up here, we have all sorts of issues like my child's
00:56 school bus, the school bus says that they cannot drive up this lane and so then that
01:03 means now having an environmental impact I'm having to drive from my house down into Haverley
01:10 Village along obviously the 107 potholes we've got here to drop my son off to the bus.
01:17 I do have to say that Structure Council have been out on two occasions over the last four
01:22 years to patch up some of the potholes but as I explained to them before these potholes
01:29 patched up just last for about six months maximum and then they were washed away again.
01:35 So the public money has been spent on patching things up when really it means a whole road
01:42 resurface and I just think it's really, really bad that we're in such a high council tax bracket,
01:49 we're all having the cost of living going on and our roads are being repaired.
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