A village resident has blasted the council for “failing in its duty of responsibility” after increased traffic due to a string of planning applications that were given the green light one after the other has “destroyed” his road.

Paul Simmons, who runs a B&B with his wife in Hill Farm Road, Marlow Bottom, said three separate housing developments that were allowed to take place continuously for three years caused a “nightmare” on the quiet road, with huge trucks moving earth and rubble on a road surface which he says was “not built for this purpose”.

Mr Simmons said the increase in cars and traffic, along with bad weather, has made the road “very poor” for him and his neighbours.

He said: “The changes that were allowed to happen, despite the advice given by local residents at the time, has caused specific problems from water flooding off the road onto our properties.

“This has been quite dramatic on a few occasions and we have a gulley at the bottom of our drive which has now become virtually blocked up and, along with the silt and mud that has been splashed over the roads, this has found its way onto our drive and this has started to cause a break up in the surface of the tarmac.”

He slammed Bucks County Council (BCC) for the state of the road and not providing a “fairly low-cost” hump to tackle the problem despite having asked for one.

He said: “Despite my assertion that a tarmac hump edging along our three properties would divert the water down the hill, they have only offered a small hump between our property and next door’s property, which for us would not resolve the problem.

“When you consider that we all pay good council tax money (ostensibly to BCC) and here we have no road drainage, no street lights, no pavements and a road littered with potholes and cannot even get them to build a fairly low-cost hump? Very sad.

“I was informed by an architect that the local council have a statutory responsibility to prevent road surface water affecting residential properties, but despite that BCC have failed in that duty of responsibility.”

Transport for Buckinghamshire said it had been in contact with Mr Simmons and “practical” solution to the problem has been suggested which it believes will “resolve the matter”, adding it will continue to work with Mr Simmons until a resolution has been reached.

A spokesman said: “We have received no other communication from any of the other residents in the area about the issues mentioned.

“Hill Farm Road is regularly inspected and when safety defects are evident as laid out in the Highway Inspection Policy, we undertake necessary repairs and will continue to do so.”