THE war of words continued this week with Surrey County Council over delays and problems with improvements at Wey Hill

Town councillors this week blamed the traffic lights for again causing traffic chaos in Wey Hill.

The saga of the timing of the traffic lights by the entrance to the Tesco supermarket continued last week at a meeting of the town council's planning and highways committee. Councillor for Hindhead, Peter Isherwood, told the meeting: "The situation at the traffic lights seems to be getting worse and worse!

"I thought Surrey County Council (SCC) was going to do something about the timing of the lights but there's no evidence that any action has been taken."

Earlier this month, The Herald reported that an SCC spokesman had stated the timing of the lights "was the best that could ever be achieved". The spokesman added that engineers were still working on improvements for the lights.

Councillors at last week'smeeting agreed to write to SCC again, demanding that the matter is seen to "with urgency".

On Friday, June 6, SCC's local Waverley committee is due to discuss yet another contentious issue in Wey Hill - the proposed relocation of the bus stop, currently situated outside Kelway Law Estate Agents and Moore & Clark, the electrical shop.

The committee will hear that the preferred option, as suggested by Haslemere Chamber of Trade, to move the bus stop outside Lloyds TSB and the Small Office Home Centre, (SOHO), is to be dismissed on safety grounds.

Of the three other options, a scheme to move the bus stop to outside the Methodist Church was also turned down because it was felt by the chamber to be too far from the shops and the church too was not happy with the idea.

SCC officers are expected to recommend to members of the committee that the bus stop stays where it is but that two free car-parking spaces outside Kelway Law Estate Agents and Moore & Clark are removed.

That, they say, "will allow buses to pull in and allow two-way traffic flow past the bus, thus reducing congestion through Wey Hill".

While two parking spaces would be lost, three spaces would remain outside the Methodist church.

Melanie Odell, the president of Haslemere Chamber of Trade, said that the recommendation not to move the bus stop would continue to make it "extraordinarily difficult" for buses and traffic in Wey Hill.