I have reported the growing pothole on St Crispin’s Road at the junction with Newtonhill Road. It wasn’t filled along with other potholes as Scottish Water workers were at that spot.

The Roads Service tells me it has been logged as “Lower Priority Programmed Repair” following an inspection. Officers say it requires further intervention and defects in this category “will often be repaired when a programme of planned work can be organised which maximises efficiency as resources become available and may take much longer to complete.”

Officers add that they are unable to provide an estimated completion date.

I hope this means it will be added to the list of outstanding repairs – including those in Cairnwell Road – which I have been promised will be carried out in the new financial year.

Meantime it would help if residents would continue to report potholes: https://online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/apps/roadfaults/