Council fix 108 steps?

It appears someone has “fixed” the 108 steps at Churchside or attempted to fix them.

As you can see from the images, tarmac has been patched into the cobbled surface, creating an eyesore – and just about as far away as possible from a sympathetic restoration.

We hope this is just a temporary fix and that the tarmac patches will be removed and the cobbles reinstated in the near future.

Additional note: Apparently someone on twitter has spoken to the council about this and was told it is a ‘temporary fix’.

Forgive our scepticism, but weren’t the steps from Churchside to Gas Road ‘temporarily closed’ several years ago?