It's all over the place in Essex too. They have a lot of road markings to replace as well. Sadly this cheap and nasty road treatment appears to be done on areas that don't actually need it and completely avoids areas with big potholes. Top job ECC.

Indeed, a fair bit of it being done round here too. It's no fun riding on it on a motorbike, let me tell you.

The really dangerous stuff is that very fine crushed granite that is used to top dress the random repair patches. Avoid at all costs if you can, it's like riding on ball bearings.

Info we received was a sweep would take place on the two days following the work. First one was about an hour ago, so two days after,

Its too late for a neighbours wall which was hit sometime overnight by another budding rally driver who drove off with severe damage to the car's front end.

24 hours after the job and no sign of a sweeper so we now have a very loose surface.

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This is because they rely on vehicle wheels to finish off the cheap and not very cheerful job of rolling the stones into the bitumen.

Back when I drove buses, if on a road which had been dressed, I'd deliberately drive outwith the existing tracks (assuming it was safe to do so of course!) to do my bit in spending up this process.

Due to the excess of chippings I have avoided using the street for the last three weeks. We had a sweeper twice, but the chippings are still everywhere.

Yesterday I had no choice but to use it and guess what? Temporary lights, Northern Gas are replacing gas pipes. New surface alteady dug up for about 100m!

Sadly par for the course these days - I've seen that happen many a time, including last month when the county council resurfaced the road from my local station traffic lights all the way into town (actually the only sections needed resurfacing were the traffic lights area and two small areas, not 500m worth), then their own contractor came back three weeks later and dug up some of the newly laid area by the station to install new traffic lights!

I give up sometimes at their ineptitude and ability to waste £000ks of public money year after year.

With your situation, all the utility companies and construction companies should be forced to give councils and the Highways authorities their provisional schedules where they will need to dig up the road/paths for planned works or where certain faults that will likely need digging them up to occur, so that any resurfacing, other highway works etc can be suitably planned/co-ordinated to reduce costs, wasted effort and disruption.

I mean, it was adequately explained in the 1980s/90s for a blimmin' Heineken advert.