‘Disappointing’ situation sees freshly painted Crowland road dug up for resurfacing

Highways bosses have vowed to learn from their mistakes after a road was resurfaced shortly after new white lines were painted.

People in Crowland were left confused after fresh lines were painted along the town’s West Street in April — only for this to be ripped up a short time later for a full resurfacing job.

Lincolnshire County Council has said this was a ‘disappointing’ situation - but said the unnecessary job cost the authority less than £100.

Crowland resident Philip Green has branded this as a ‘prime example of waste’ and has raised the issue with new county councillor Raymond Condell.

He said: “Around six weeks ago West Street had its white lines repainted. Three weeks ago a complete resurfacing has taken place.

“A lovely new road surface without white lines. Our new county councillor has not responded to the question about what is going on. I would guess the white lining must have been expensive only to be dug up shortly afterwards and now it has to be done again.

“A prime example of waste in the LCC budget.”

Karen Cassar, assistant director for highways, said that the job had cost the authority £62.

She said: "This is a disappointing situation, but one we will learn from. The local highways officer has tried to be proactive, but despite the systems and tools we have in place to give them visibility of upcoming schemes it seems this was missed. Definitely an internal training issue for us.

"The job cost us £62 because of the way we pay, which means that we're not paying for the vehicle and gang for a day so individual lining jobs are really good value.

"We will review what happened and do everything we can to ensure that something like this doesn't happen again."

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