“It’s a half done job"....Workers resurface road AROUND parked cars leaving residents stunned

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Workers have resurfaced a street around cars in Prestwich leaving residents gobsmacked. Neighbours came home to find the job had been left ‘half-done’ on their street.

The gravel put down a few days ago was successfully done and the notices to remove cars from the street had been taken down - meaning the Brandram Road residents thought it was fine to park their cars there.

They were caught unawares when the workers returned and put a sticky resin [liquid bitumen] on top of the gravel to hold it in place, avoiding the areas where cars were parked. “We left the cars for two days and we went away Friday afternoon and it was still under the road and we came back an hour ago to this,” Alicia McIntosh said. READ MORE Girl rushed to hospital after 19 passengers trapped on rollercoaster “To be fair it doesn’t bother me that much.

The most annoying bit is trending the stones into the house. “I’ve seen it [tarmacking around cars] before around here. If they wanted us to move it we could’ve done that so they could do a proper job.” Like Alica, many of the residents had moved their cars when prompted to do so by Bury Council, but once the notices came down on Friday they brought them back onto the road as they thought the work was finished.