MADAM,

Monmouthshire County Council Highways Department were originally going to use modern brickets on the area surrounding the Shire Hall Monmouth, a Grade 1 Listed Building, but members of the public fought long and hard for stone slabs.

Sadly the work appears to have been defective as forty-four became cracked and unsafe, and were replaced by tarmac in our historic market square! 

Ten more are now showing signs of deterioration. Since Chepstow’s stone pavements were laid competently throughout their town and have withstood years of use without detrimental effect, should not a small stretch of historic Monmouth deserve equal attention to detail?

The dumping of our stone slabs was inevitable considering the way in which they were laid. What our Highways Department is doing is wasteful, an eyesore and destroying an ancient thoroughfare

The work carried out by Monmouthshire County Council, on the behalf of council tax payers, should have been completed in a competent and professional manner, but this appears not to have been done when these stone slabs were laid.

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