A VILLAGE which had to wait more than two years for three minor road improvements has finally had success.

Parish councillors in Ashbury near Faringdon have been chasing Oxfordshire County Council to spend the £15,000 which was set aside for the village in late 2013.

Now work is due to start next week on creating chicanes on three of the four road entrances to the village to slow down speeding cars.

Parish clerk James Greenham, who also runs physiotherapy equipment manufacturer EMS Physio at Grove Business Park, said he was grateful something was finally happening.

The £15,000 in question was handed to the county council by a housing developer to go towards road improvements in the village.

Redcliffe Homes was granted planning permission to build 18 houses in the Wixes Piece estate in 2013.

Since then, the homes have been built and occupied and the playground at the estate is up and running, but the road improvements were never done.

Mr Greenham said his council were chasing the county all that time but felt like they had been "bounced from one officer to another" without anything getting done.

But after the exasperated clerk included the Oxford Mail on yet another frustrated email to the county, highways schemes coordinator Geoff Barrell responded with the good news that the construction materials would arrive on July 11 and the two-week construction works would start on July 18.

He also apologised for the delays.

Ashbury councillors have now asked their county council representative Yvonne Constance to explain to them why it took her authority quite so long to spend their money.