Thanks to Brighton and Hove City Council for finally restoring our street to normality.

After nearly a year of inconvenience, it is such a pleasure not to have to clean up loose chippings and tar from our carpets.

Thanks, too, to our local councillor, Vince Meegan, for taking up this problem for the residents and getting it sorted out.

But why wasn't the job done properly in the first place?

-John Barham, Glendale Road, Hove