ANGRY residents living on the Squires Wood and Teil Green estates in Fulwood are protesting that they have been forced to live with inadequate drainage systems and unfinished road surfaces.

According to the council, the top surface of the road cannot been laid yet, as there are still 69 remedial faults with the drainage that must first be sorted out.

Until this work is done the council cannot adopt the roads in the area, and residents, some of whom have been living with the problem for the past four years, want to know who would be responsible if there were an accident?

Councillor Jennifer Greenhalgh says: "The possibility of an accident is very real on these roads.

"The road is more like a building site, with pieces of rubble flying from passing cars. There are no road markings, making rights of way very unclear - the whole estate is an accident waiting to happen."

Father Damian Feeney, local resident and community priest, said: "I know for a fact that there have been personal injuries as a result of the poor road surface.

"The whole thing has been put together without any thought for what is already in place. It's a shambles and high time something was done about it."

Councillor Greenhalgh is now calling for a change of policy, setting deadlines at the planning stage for completion of such estates.

Companies failing to meet these deadlines would then be penalised. She added: "The (development companies) should have a moral obligation to the residents. The whole situation is untenable. Someone should be getting on and doing something about this."

Residents on the estate have signed a petition calling for the work to be done, which they intend to present to the mayor next week.