AROUND £12,000 has been awarded to a project repairing road signs around Salisbury, with "hundreds" across the city already transformed.

Concerns were raised by a councillor however, as one road in Bemerton Heath does not have a nameplate, causing location and delivery confusion.

With this funding granted by Salisbury Area Board last week, selected nameplates in Harnham and St Mark's and Bishopdown will be next in line to receive a makeover.

When this has been completed, the project, which first launched around three years ago, will have finished its first round of the city - having addressed road signs in every ward.

Speaking during the Area Board, vice-chairman Sven Hocking, who is leading the street nameplates project, said: "Over the last three years we've replaced and refurbished several hundred [signs], we have funded repairs and replacements through the Area Board and the ones that have been repainted have been financed through CATG [the community area transport group]."

Councillor Hocking added that the project has "proved popular so far", with a second list of nameplates ready to be looked at in previously visited wards, once the Harnham and Bishopdown round is complete.

Despite already conducting remedial work on signs in the Bemerton Heath area, Cllr Tom Corbin asked Cllr Hocking if Cedar Close could be included in the next round, as he claimed there had not been a sign there for "some months".

Talking at the Area Board he said the road is getting confused with Pinewood Way, Pinewood Close and Westwood Road, adding: "We've just gone through Christmas, with deliveries there has been an awful lot of confusion and an awful lot of very angry residents in what is actually a small road. It would be very nice if you could include Cedar Close within this piece of work that you're doing."

Cllr Hocking confirmed he would make this road a priority, either during this round of the project or in the next round, when he plans to apply for around a further £10,000.

Commenting on the large sum of money requested, Cllr Brian Dalton said: "I'm just amazed at the cost of them, it's quite shocking. I had to sit down and think 'are they really that expensive?', but they are.

"It's great when some of the old, cast ones are repainted because they look so much better than those b***** awful ones that [were] replaced over the years on those aluminium legs with the signs in the middle - those ones look cheap and horrible."

Other funding and grants awarded during the Area Board, held on January 21, include £2,500 to ArtCare, £850 to Bridge Youth Project, £5,000 to Splash, £5,000 to Rise 61 and £1,500 to St Francis Church.

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