Campaigners have complained that it feels like a Surrey road project is “going to go on forever.”

Work on the A320 near Ottershaw Roundabout in the Chertsey area part of a wider nearly £42 million project, began earlier this year but was halted in May. Campaigners previously told the BBC the scheme – which they claim has made the area look awful – has caused “huge” traffic disruption.

Bob Oliver from the Ottershaw Neighbourhood Forum claimed works had breached multiple planning conditions, including the destruction of a wooded area that left behind a “wasteland”.

Surrey County Council said it recognised the roadworks were frustrating for residents and road users.

A council spokesperson says the pause “allows the council to work with the contractor, arboriculturists and ecologists to carry out surveys and agree measures to ensure the continued protection of trees and habitats, as well as replacement planting to mitigate loss of trees and vegetation”.

Nigel Eastment, also of the Ottershaw Neighbourhood Forum, told BBC Radio Surrey the situation was “desperately sad”.

“We just have [now] a huge building site and seemingly no way out of it.

“It just makes you wonder who’s in charge of this and how they’re making decisions that end up with something so obviously wrong,” he said.

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