Hyndburn councillors passed a motion at Thursday s full Council meeting on the issue. Proposer St Oswald’s ward’s Cllr Glen Harrison said: Presently the system employed by Conservative controlled Lancashire County Council is simply not efficient and a waste of taxpayers’ money. The Labour representative s motion was passed without Conservative votes against and now chief executive David Welsby will write to to write to the Highways Department at Lancashire County Council, requesting that a full and urgent review is undertaken regards the state of Lancashire’s gullies and review the effectiveness of their interventions when clearing drains . Cllr Harrison highlighted the state of Lottice Lane between the Britannia Inn on Haslingden Old Road in Oswaldtwistle and the King Edward Pub at Guide as an example of the problems when he proposed the move.
COUNTY Council engineers have cleared blocked drains and gullies on a busy road to a hospital after a Labour councillor condemned the state of the carriageway. St Oswald s ward s Cllr Glen Harrison has put down a motion on the issue for Thursday s (tonight s for print on Thursday) full meeting of Hyndburn Council. The Labour candidate for Oswaldtwistle division in May s Lancashire County Council elections said it was just one of many roads in the borough made dangerous by the problem. But the county authority s Tory highways boss Cllr Keith Iddon said his move was a disgrace . Cllr Harrison s motion reads: Many roads in Hyndburn suffer poor drainage which causes hazardous driving conditions.