APPEALS for urgent road improvements to help boost Wey Hill have been heeded by Surrey County Council.

Traders have welcomed news that resurfacing works will be carried out as part of Surrey's £5m winter repair programme, following complaints that the A287 Wey Hill road – a heavily used link to Hindhead and the A3 – should have been included as "high priority" in the county council's major Operation Horizon road repair programme.

Businesse owners who had called for Wey Hill to be prioritised protested that it should have been in the Operation Horizon list of roads in the flagship programme, which is part of a £100m county council investment to tackle the root cause of potholes and grow the economy.

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