WORKS to improve “worn out” flats next to the site of a sinkhole risk in Ripon could get underway this summer, a senior councillor has said. Councillor Mike Chambers, cabinet member for housing and safer communities at Harrogate Borough Council, said the refurbishment of Allhallowgate flats had been delayed due to Covid but would get underway at the “end of summer or beginning of autumn”. The project was first agreed in 2014 and the latest update follows complaints from residents and councillors that the ageing building has become an eyesore. Speaking at a meeting on Wednesday, Councillor Sid Hawke, who represents the Ripon Ure Bank ward, described the flats as “looking a bit tired and worn out”.