Witham's Glebe Crescent dubbed 'Pothole Crescent'

Residents in Glebe Crescent are up-in-arms about the lack of repairs to the street.

They say there are are so many potholes it is impossible to avoid them when driving along the road or even crossing the street.

Janet Williams, 75, said: "I have to be really careful when I'm driving my car as it's so easy to damage the wheels and tyres, and Essex County Council binmen have great difficulty moving our wheelie bins to their trucks because the terrible state of the road surface."

Betty Sheehan, 82, suffers from rheumatoid arthritis and is often driven along the crescent by her son.

"I have to take pain killers whenever I get out in the car, because bumping up and down over the potholes is agonising due to my condition," she said.

Potholes in Glebe Crescent (Image: Julia McLellan)

"It's disgusting to see the state of it and it's been like this for at least four years."

Lisa Cooper, who also lives in 'Pothole Crescent', said: "The council marked up the road months ago but never came back to fix the holes, and now all their markings have worn away."

Victoria Jones, 51, who has lived there for five years, said: "There were potholes when I moved here, but now there are even more. It's really dreadful."

Victoria claims several months ago, two council maintenance workers parked their vehicle over a large pothole before repairing two smaller ones.

"It's a joke," she continued. "The ones they'd fixed had opened up again."

Keith Williams and Elsie Hollington with their dogs (Image: Julia McLellan)

Keith Williams, 70, walks his dog Suzy with neighbour Elsie Hollington, 74, and her dog Tilly.

Keith said: "I try not to cross the road, as I'm scared I'll trip over one of the potholes, or Suzy will get stuck in one of them."

Elsie said: "Our neighbourhood has a Facebook site to highlight the problems, but the council doesn't seem to care. It's been like this for years."

She added: "It's my birthday tomorrow and I've a good mind to put 75 candles in the holes to mark the day."

Furious Nicola Moore, 44, and daughter, Chloe, 19, recently bought four new tyres for the family car due to the constant bumping over potholes.

"When we recently had some construction work done on the house, the contractor struggled to reach and park on our driveway because of the potholes," she said.

Some of the potholes in Glebe Crescent are more than three inches deep (Image: Julia McLellan)

A spokesperson for Essex Highways said: ““We look after 5,000 miles of roads, one of the largest road networks in the country, with a mix of urban and rural roads, which each bring their own challenges.

“Due to the pressure on our limited resources, we prioritise our work and fix the higher-risk issues first. Unfortunately, we cannot undertake all works at once.

“This means we do the repairs that require immediate attention because of safety issues first, and then move to more minor repairs.  Not all defects that have been reported and inspected require immediate repair.”