Church Street in Boston Spa was fully resurfaced in February but a local councillor has said that there has since been six defects with the road. It was felt that the issues were related to a pipe running under the road but Yorkshire Water say they have “not found any issues” after an assessment. However, the council has said that they were “unable to access the worst impacted locations”.
Advertisement Advertisement Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Yorkshire Evening Post, you can get unlimited access to the website including our premium content, as well as benefiting from fewer ads, loyalty rewards and much more. Ward councillor Penny Stables said that the council had done a “very good job” of resurfacing the road, which is a busy through route used by cars and cyclists. She added that the road had become “quite dangerous” before the work, though there were no prior incidents of sinkholes appearing.
Cllr Stables said: “When it was done it was all smooth and there was no indents but over time the along the centre line you started getting areas that dropped.” She said that she had reported six drops in the road to the council, who had fixed them within 48 hours, adding that “if it was left the surface would break”. Yorkshire Water came to assess the pipeline but couldn’t establish the cause of the issues.
Cllr Stables said: “They weren’t able to look at it all though. Advertisement Advertisement “Highways currently think it’s likely .
