A ROAD on an industrial site in Malvern could finally be completed - 13 years after the land was bought by Malvern Hills District Council.

Following complaints last year by firms on the Hayfield Business Centre about the state of the road, the district council is being recommended to spend nearly £56,000 so that it can be adopted by the county council and the sewers can be taken on by Severn Trent Water.

The council bought the land at the Hayfield in 1995 with a view to installing services like roads and drainage before selling the site as five individual building plots.

Work on the roads and drains began in 1996 but was left unfinished until building work on the individual plots took place.

All the plots were sold by 2004 and one was developed into nine units - now know as the Hayfield Business Centre - by the following year. However the road and drainage was never finished.

The council’s executive committee, which meets on Tuesday, is now being recommended to accept the lowest of three tenders for the work - £55,715 - and finish the road, street lighting and drains so they can be adopted.

Head of the legal and governance Nigel Snape says in his report to the committee that the plot buyers had a reasonable expectation that the road would be made up and if the council does not finish the job and get it adopted by the county council, Malvern Hills will be faced with an ongoing maintenance liability.