The county council has again backtracked from publicly given assurances over road repairs.

Readers may recall that HCC attempted to renege on their promises on both Beaconsfield Road and Lemsford Road. After much lobbying I managed to get both schemes reinstated – although we are still to see whether Lemsford Road will actually happen.

They have now told us that they have no plans to resurface Worley Road – this was patched last year but the workmanship was so incompetent that councillors and residents were assured that it would be done properly this year.

Yet again Herts Highways has been shown up to be utterly unreliable.