The council has blamed a “significant” of drivers failing to move their vehicles as requested as to why resurfacing work on Falmouth streets was left incomplete.

The resurfacing of Dunstanville Terrace, Stratton Place, Stratton Terrace, Tehidy Terrace and North Parade was supposed to have finished on February 10.

But the work has been left incomplete after county highways says, despite being asked to do so, a significant number of drivers failed to move their vehicles from the side of the road. Consequently the work was left unfinished.

Falmouth Packet: The work was unfinished at the side of the road. There is no suffestion that these care are parked incorrectly as the picture was taken todayThe work was unfinished at the side of the road. There is no suffestion that these care are parked incorrectly as the picture was taken today (Image: Paul Armstrong)

In a statement issued to the Packet, Cormac said it will return to complete the work at a later date, although it didn’t say when.

It said: “Ahead of the original works, Cormac arranged for advanced signage, no parking cones and letter drops to be carried out to encourage residents not to park on the road between the hours the work was being carried out,” said the statement.

“However, there were a significant number of vehicles that did not move, meaning that work had to be carried out around them.

“Cormac will return to the area to complete the sections that were obstructed. No dates have been confirmed, but will require road space to be approved by Cornwall Council and considerable liaison with the local councillor and residents to ensure that the vehicles do not cause an obstruction on the next attempt.”

Residents say at the High Street end of Dunstanville Terrace a continuous strip of 31 parking spaces has been left unfinished as well as other areas right along the road.

Further along, adjacent to Symons Hill Stratton Terrace has the equivalent of three spaces on the double yellow line area, followed by Tehidy Terrace with around ten more unrepaired parking spaces, and North Parade with another 11 spaces.

They say a total of around 55 spaces have been left.

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Local resident Dave Culling who lives on the High Street said that the problem was because Cormac didn’t finish in time meaning people returned to park on after the expiration date.

“By which time the residents, commuters and tourists vehicles had inevitably returned en-masse to the vacant parking spaces, thereby preventing completion of the job,” he said.

“A month later with neither County Highways, Falmouth Town Council nor the Devon & Cornwall Police having any legal powers to move vehicles, four sections of the original road surface with its weed and gravel-choked gutters and drains, equating to 56 vehicular spaces still remain.

“So despite our already sky-high Council Taxes rising by the maximum allowable percentage year-on-year, these rough old gravel-sprayed areas and their potholes now appear destined to remain on the landward side of the highway for the next ten or 20 years or so.”