RESIDENTS of a Wilmslow cul-de-sac fear their decrepit road surface is such a low priority for council chiefs that it will never be fixed.

Cedarway, in Fulshaw Park, was named in the press as one of a number of roads Cheshire East Council wanted to repair back in April 2013.

But seven years later the worn-out road is yet to be resurfaced.

Tony Round has lived in Cedarway with his wife Joan since 1986, and claims it has never been resurfaced in that time.

He told the Guardian: “We have been complaining about it for years but the council just don’t give a damn. They just pay lip service.

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“You get a reply back, saying the council engineers inspect the road every year and keep it safe, but they don’t.

“We really feel the council is letting down its ratepayers – we pay our dues but we get nothing in return.”

Tony and Joan received a letter from a CEC engineer in August 2011 suggesting Cedarway needed resurfacing ‘as soon as possible’ – with the hope of securing funding for the job in 2012-13.

Safety issues on the road were laid bare last year when a van driver skidded on the surface and lost control, causing them to hit a lamppost on the corner with Fulshaw Park South.

Cllr David Jefferay, Residents of Wilmslow member on CEC for Wilmslow East, says the issue was a big talking point on the doorstep in last May’s local election and when he was first elected onto the town council.

He said: “When I was first elected last May, one of my first priorities was to email highways about this, and the response I got was ‘yes it is a priority’ – happy days.

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“Three months later, I chased it up, and they said ‘unfortunately it has been taken off, it cannot be done this year’.

“If it takes me putting in a complaint every day, that’s what I’m going to have to do.

“It is a shame that it has come to this because the residents are paying their council tax and they are not getting the service they deserve.”

Cllr Jefferay believes that Cedarway does not meet a raft of criteria that CEC looks for when prioritising road repairs – such as how busy it is and the number of claims made on it.

But CEC insists it continues to monitor Cedarway to make sure it is safe.

A council spokesman said: “Cedarway, in Wilmslow, has been inspected by highway officers and submitted for prioritisation against other resurfacing schemes across the borough.

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“The road has been inspected twice in the last six months and, following the September inspection, the council’s highways service repaired six potholes which met the intervention level.

“The council cannot guarantee that a particular road will be included in future highway maintenance programmes as it will depend on available funding and the priority score, given following inspection.

“The council will continue to monitor Cedarway and keep Cedarway safe. The road will continue to be assessed against other priorities.”