A BOROUGH local authority is to write to Lancashire County Council to ask for improvements to its drain and gully clearing work.

Hyndburn councillors passed a motion at Thursday's full Council meeting on the issue.

Proposer St Oswald’s ward’s Cllr Glen Harrison said: "Presently the system employed by Conservative controlled Lancashire County Council is simply not efficient and a waste of taxpayers’ money."

The Labour representative's motion was passed without Conservative votes against and now chief executive David Welsby will write to to write to the Highways Department at Lancashire County Council,

requesting that 'a full and urgent review is undertaken regards the state of Lancashire’s gullies and review the effectiveness of their interventions when clearing drains'.

Cllr Harrison highlighted the state of Lottice Lane between the Britannia Inn on Haslingden Old Road in Oswaldtwistle and the King Edward Pub at Guide as an example of the problems when he proposed the move.

Conservative group leader Cllr Marlene Haworth said she had been informed that the road had been comprehensively dealt with.

She said four new storm grates has been installed on drains on Lottice Lane as part of the recent gully clearing and further works to make long-term improvements were planned.

Cllr Haworth said the current Conservative administration at County Hall was having to clear up their Labour predecessors neglect of and underinvestment in key highway works.

Spring Hill Labour councillor Munsif Dad said there were similar problems on roads right across Hyndburn and highlighted Hyndburn Road as an example.