Fed up residents say they have been waiting 13 years for the main road through their estate in Sittingbourne to be finished.

Swale Cllr James Hall (Independents Alliance, Murston) said: “People began moving onto Heron Fields in 2007 but are still waiting for the spine road to get its top coat.

“Every car on this estate has either lost an exhaust pipe or had a tyre ripped at some point because the drains are still sticking up.

“There are pavements without street lights where people are afraid to walk at night and some just haven’t been finished. A young girl tripped over one stretch the other day and had to go to hospital. It is like living in a war zone.”

He pointed out dropped kerbs in Eveas Drive which he said had been built in the wrong place and said residents were demanding a corner shop for wasteland next to the Lakeview community centre in Great Easthall Way.

Meteorologist Gareth Harvey, 40, was one of the first to move onto the estate.

He stormed: “The developers promised us so much. They said we’d get a pub, some shops, a primary school, a medical centre and a northern relief road to stop cars using these roads like race tracks.

"We finally had our community centre built but everything else has been dropped one by one to make way for more housing.

“We came here because we wanted to live in a nice new village community. Now we are stuck in the middle of nowhere. It’s like living in a giant cul-de-sac. We are seriously thinking about moving.”

Cllr Hall said: “The developers plan to build a multi-games area on the overgrown space next to the community centre with the Section 106 community contribution of around £100,000. But there is already a play area. So residents now want their promised shop.”

He says delays have been caused by a dispute between main developers Countryside Properties and partners Chartway and Hyde who have completed their own section of Housson Avenue and Harper Way.

According to Cllr Hall, none want to finish Eveas Way and the county council won't adopt the road until the work is done.

Cllr Hall says he understands Countryside wants to build another 45 houses.

Mr Harvey said: “As a trustee of the village hall that would be a disaster.

"I can just imagine people moving into the area complaining about the noise from the hall’s clubs, parties and events. We need that income to keep going.”

Donald Hills, 69, moved onto the estate five years ago with his wife Joyce and daughter Beverly. The pavement outside their £295,000 home was only recently finished. He said: “It has been left and left. We call this estate the land that time forgot.”

Beverly, 45, said she has had to buy new tyres and springs for her car because of the road’s condition.s

Countryside has been approached for a comment.

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