❗️ SBC admit the crumbling road is their responsibility at Swindon Orbital Shopping Park
Is this progress?
Swindon Borough Council has now confirmed that the failing stretch between Thamesdown Drive and the Orbital roundabout is their responsibility. After I raised this with the cabinet member on 19 August, he confirmed resurfacing is scheduled for December. At long last, repairs are on the way.
This is a start. Thank you to all the residents who have supported this and kept pressing for answers. Your persistence has made a difference.
These questions now remain:
❓Why schedule works during the busiest period of the year for the Orbital Shopping Park?
❓Why not sooner?
❓What exactly is the scope of the repair. Will this be a full resurfacing or just patching?
It is also notable that the Labour cabinet member chose not to mention his own colleagues, the Labour councillors for Priory Vale.