A TENBURY councillor claims that road works in the town is severely restricting business. 

A traffic control system is currently in place on Teme Street due to gully repairs, flood elevation and pre-Environmental Agency flood defence works. 

However, Cllr Andrew Willmott believes that Worcestershire County Council could have looked at ways to prevent disruption. 

"Tenbury’s road network is one of, if not the, primary infrastructures serving the town," he said.

"Restrict it and you hurt the town in a variety of ways. There are solutions to this problem.

"Up until the mid-1960s, holes and trenches in the carriageway would be back-filled each evening with loose rubble to prevent accidents and allow use – this was, of course, expensive for large, deep trenchworks so cordoning off was adopted.

"Our current Teme Street road works are relatively small holes, these can easily be either backfilled with already broken rubble or easily covered with a traffic suitable cover and excess rubble kept on a truck.

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"In London, in some boroughs, they compel such works to be undertaken at night so as not to disrupt traffic – the trade-off in this case is more cost and residential noise.

"Depending on the solution, costs will be a little higher – but only if you ignore the savings to the wider public in any cost benefit analysis. This is our town, our area and our tax money. Could we do things differently in our district?"

A spokesperson for Worcestershire County Council said: “The works in Teme Street are to enable investigation of the drainage system at this location in connection with the future Environment Agency flood alleviation scheme.

"The traffic lights are there to ensure safety of officers during the investigation. We are continuing to liaise with the local County Councillor.”