Worst potholes title 'is ours'
Pothole wars have broken out in a Black Country borough with residents claiming their road is riddled with the most craters.
Dave and Susan Raybould, of Fairview Road, Dudley, say their street is a lot worse than Wordsley's Plant Street, which has 35 potholes and was featured in the Express & Star last week. The warehouse manager is angry that there is no council tax discount because of its poor state. Like Plant Street, the road is unadopted and Dudley Council has no responsibility to maintain it.
Residents were forced to lay their own asphalt more than 30 years ago, the family say, and the road has not been resurfaced since. And the 17 householders in the street were also recently quoted £7,000 each for a new surface to be laid.
Mother-of-two Mrs Raybould, aged 56, said: "It was last resurfaced years and years ago, before we moved here in 1982.
