Are you happy with your street?

8:01am Wednesday 21st May 2008

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THE KNUTSFORD Guardian wants to know what you think of the state of the road where you live.

Please use the information below to send us pictures of the state of your road.

"Repairing and remaking roads at the moment is so expensive."

County Councillor Bert Grange

Click here to email us.

You can also text pictures and comments to the newsdesk. Start your message with the keywords Knutsford News and send it to 80360.

Alternatively, you can drop them off at our office at the Council Offices in Toft Road, Knutsford.

A survey of council engineers revealed last month that some roads in the country face a 65-year wait for resurfacing because of budget shortfalls.

Many roads in Knutsford have been neglected for years and there is no prospect of repair work in the near future.

We want you to send in pictures of the worst affected areas in the town and let us know what you want to be done about them.

Disgrace The Guardian spoke to residents living on some bad roads in the town centre last week.

Enid Leigh, 77, has lived at the junction of Gaskell Avenue and Stanley Road for 15 years.

"Gaskell Avenue is in a terribly bad way," she said.

"The whole lot wants redoing really because there are big potholes all the way down."

A woman who has lived in Gaskell Avenue for 17 years said the road was atrocious.

"I think it is a disgrace," she said.

"It should be one of the better-kept roads purely from an historical point of view."

She said historian Joan Leach, who founded The Gaskell Society, often escorted visitors to Gaskell Avenue to see Mrs Gaskell's old house and Highwayman Higgins' house"

A resident in Glebelands Road blamed the poor state of the road on a recently completed apartment complex. "There were a lot of lorries and cranes to do with the building here and I think they caused the damage," said Ann Taylor, who had lived there for 35 years.

"The roads are appalling here."

She said the junction with Toft Road was particularly bad and a patch of road near her home had sunk and frequently collected water.

"I can't remember when anything was last done," she said. "I'm sure it should be on the list of roads to be looked at." Bert Grange, a county councillor responsible for Knutsford, said repair work would be done if Cheshire County Council could afford it.

"The present situation with the roads is there's not the money available to repair them," he said.

"I'm not happy with them as they are but repairing and remaking roads at the moment is so expensive. The money we have been getting from the Government to do the work has just been going down each year."