FOLLOWING up on Sue Read’s article in last week’s “Courier” (December 14), I took this photo of the extensive pothole at the bridge below Moorlake Cross. 

Devon County Council’s Highway Maintenance department’s pathetic repair is visibly disintegrating into particles of tarmac due to this road’s high usage. 

With poor workmanship like this, no wonder our roads are in such a shocking state. 

I wonder why the council bothers having a highway maintenance role as they are plainly useless and there is evidently no quality control of works conducted.

In October, I submitted to the council 34 pothole reports covering the stretch from Moorlake Cross to Elston Meadow. Naturally, I got a mealy-mouthed automated response from the council for each report. 

To be fair, the Highway Maintenance has made equally pathetic attempts at filling a couple of my reported potholes. 

Despairingly, I note from the council’s interactive map that all my potholes are no longer mapped. 

Apparently, the large potholes will be repaired at some far distant unknown date in some hitherto unknown programme of pothole repair. I’m not holding my breath.

The Crediton-Yeoford road is a country lane but has almost constant heavy traffic including cars, vans, HGVs and hefty farm vehicle traffic. 

I would recommend the stretch from Elston Meadow to the bridge at Moorlake Cross be properly resurfaced by professionals rather than Highway Maintenance’s shoddy amateurs.

At the Crediton Hamlets Parish Council meeting at Yeoford on January 2, 2024, it will be interesting to hear the County Council’s excuses for such poor workmanship, lack of quality control and the projected date of the mythical programme to repair my reported potholes.

Phil Carroll

Crediton