COUNCILLORS have welcomed news that faded parking lines and road markings in Wellington are to be repainted by Somerset Council.

Wellington Town Council had recently contacted the unitary authority – which is responsible for highways matters – about an increasing problem of white lines, yellow lines and parking bay markings slowly but surely vanishing which was creating problems for motorists.

So members of the council’s economic development committee were delighted to hear on June 11 that Somerset Council had agreed to carry out works in Court Drive, North Street, Fore Street, Mantle Street, High Street, South Street, Longforth Road and Red Lion Court.

The town council’s facilities manager, Annette Kirk, told councillors that the work would be carried out within the next three months.

Cllr Keith Wheatley said: “It’s a very big plus to get this work done – so well done to Nettie for getting a very good record together to demonstrate to Somerset Council how bad things have got.

“We as a town council don’t control the roads, but we are doing our best and this will really make a difference.”

The work will include parking bays, loading bays, disabled bays, double yellow lines, single yellow lines and “no loading” kerb markings.

The town council’s concerns were first aired about the parking chaos outside the former Post Office in the High Street where white line markings for parking bays had virtually disappeared.

It meant some people – knowing they could park there – not parking sensibly and it had led to heated disagreements between drivers, vehicles being bumped and scraped and plenty of near misses.

An initial request to Somerset Council to have the line markings repainted had fallen on deaf ears and the town council had received no response.

But sustained pressure seems to have eventually paid off for the town council.