I need to bring to your attention the dangerous state of the road on Packhorse Road. This area of road is now very dangerous, cars slow to 10mph to avoid damage, often meandering across the other side of the carriageway to avoid driving through the potholes and driving very close to the pavement, where additionally there is loose grit and an unstable surface.

Additionally, there is a significant impact on the houses nearby when any lorry that drives through and does not slow down.

I was genuinely surprised, but our house shudders significantly when this happens. The potholes are now quite deep.

Last Friday a team came and swept all of the debris and loose grit from all of the potholes into the kerb making them even deeper and now any car that drives close to the kerb sprays the pile of loose grit (5 inches deep) onto the surrounding ground and pedestrians. I believe they filled a small pothole on one side and left the main potholes across the carriageway alone.

I fully understand that there is limited money for these repairs and that the sheer number have increased due to the weather over the last few winters, but I actually despair when I see how priorities are handled, how some (less main) roads get good repairs fully when other high traffic areas are not attended at all.

For one small pothole out of the 10-12 large potholes outside our house to be repaired cannot under any terms be efficient and I seriously wonder how this is managed. It certainly cannot be good management of a limited budget and resources. I have reported this to three different websites including the BCC site over the last three months and nothing has been done. I have raised a number of tweets but received no response at all. It is now dangerous and must be dealt with before somebody gets seriously hurt. — Guy Emerson, by email