FRUSTRATED High Wycombe residents have slammed the inaction of the authorities after a drain started spewing foul sewage all over the road three months ago.

Residents living along London Road say the stench from the drain - which is near the junction with Harlow Road - is becoming “intolerable”.

Bucks County Council was informed of the problem on February 20 through the FixMyStreet app, but the drain issue has not yet been solved.

Resident Martin Wallace said the result is a “constant puddle of dirty, foul smelling water that is splashed by passing cars all over the pavement and occasionally pedestrians”.

Commenting on FixMyStreet, one resident said: “My daughter has just been completely drenched as a result of this problem.

“A car drove through the puddle at speed - seemingly deliberately as my daughter was walking by.

“This has been on going for weeks now. You need to fix this as soon as possible. This road is extremely busy.”

Another posted on March 14 to say: “I witnessed an old lady trying to navigate the flooded pavement this morning, poor lady struggled.

“It is absolutely disgusting that this has not been fixed.

“I have seen numerous women with pushchairs and elderly people trying to walk past the issue and being splashed by oncoming traffic.

“It is an environmental health issue and the water has splashed too many people to count, someone could catch limes disease as there were rats previously lurking around that drain previously. This is not on.”

Despite engineers from Bucks County Council visiting the site to look at the problem the day after it was reported, they subsequently said the defect did not “meet the criteria for immediate intervention” and closed the enquiry.

Residents said they had a “false dawn” when they saw a series of roadworks signs being put up - but it turned out the works for a different issue and London Road residents are still suffering.

Now, having been approached by the Bucks Free Press, the council has said the drain issue is not Transport for Bucks’ responsibility - instead saying it is a “matter for Thames Water to deal with”.

When reporters asked Thames Water why the issue had not been dealt with, a spokesman said they had not been made aware of the situation - and would send out a team to decide if it was in their remit at 10pm on Thursday, as the Bucks Free Press went to print.