LOCAL frustrations over the lack of decent road repairs at the South Road Bridge this week have triggered authorities to confirm its future plans.
Workers closed the road on Tuesday night in what residents hoped would be major improvements to the road surface on and around the bridge. The next day revealed some minor repairs to some potholes.
The disappointment has caused local East Sussex County Councillor to reassure residents major works will happen this year.
Councillor Gerard Fox, East Sussex County Council member for Hailsham New Town told us: “I’ve been working with the Highways and County Assets Managements team on getting a long run solution to the South Road Bridge problem for a number of years.
“In a leaflet delivered to residents at the end of January I indicated that a significant intervention to improve the condition of South Road bridge would follow later this year.
“That remains the case, and I will not rest until it is delivered.
“The current patching work is an interim carriageway solution until ongoing utility and other works taking place in the vicinity are completed.
East Sussex Highways has reassured me that a comprehensive resurfacing project related to the bridge will follow later in the year once these other works have been completed.”
