A worried resident has said schoolchildren are being put at risk after dangerous potholes were not repaired.

Singer and photographer Danny Owen, who lives off Rickstones Road in Witham, has been calling on Essex County Council to resurface the road.

He said the road is full of potholes between the roundabout at Cressing Road and Cross Road.

Mr Owen said: “I reported all those holes about four months ago, they asked me to measure them and I said no: ‘I’m not standing in the road.’

“I reported it again because people were hitting them and damaging their cars or were swerving to avoid them.

Essex County Council then said the road would be done and closed for two days while it was resurfaced.

“I went to Bahrain and when I got back on April 22 the road has not been touched. Our road is a cul-de-sac and it’s being resurfaced, there is not a hole in it.”

When Mr Owen phoned to ask when the work would be done, he was told bad weather had probably delayed resurfacing and it would be done three months later in July.

However, records show the temperature was between 18 and 26 degrees when the road was due to be resurfaced.

Mr Owen said: “Rickstones Road is the route to New Rickstones Academy, if you hit one of those potholes and your car goes out of control and you kill a child, who is responsible?”

A spokesman for Essex County Council said pothole repairs had been carried out in January, February and March.

He said: “Rickstones Road is provisionally on the programme this year for a full new road surface in July.

“Before that can be done preparation works are carried out including checking and if necessary repairing kerbs and ironworks, which would ideally be done in June.

“The work is however dependent on weather and so progress on other surfacing works.”