RESIDENTS in homes below a massive hillside landslip are worried that promises to stop the moving mass of mud, rock and trees have so far come to nothing.
And with further movement bringing down large trees at the weekend, they want urgent action, although local county councillor Andrew Gardiner said he understood remedial work was "imminent".
The landslip was first noticed last year but in May this year a huge amount of debris spilled onto the Joy's Green-Ruardean road at the junction with Vention Lane and 'temporary' traffic lights were installed to ease single-file traffic round the blockage.
At the time District Surveyor Rob Peacey said the county council needed to wait for drier weather before putting heavy plant on the hillside to try to cure the problem.
However several months have now passed and the slip, which Mr Peacey told the Review was "the worst I have ever seen", is still spreading further across the road.
Below it lie the homes of Mr John Morgan and Carol Harper, who lives with her invalid husband Leonard just beside the traffic lights.
"As you can see it has moved much more. But all they've done is cut away the bank on the other side of the road and put some surfacing on it to make more space," she said.
She has to cope with a generator running day and night, as well as traffic near-misses and arguments.
"In a sense you get used to it after a while," she said, "But it shouldn't be like this – it would be better if it wasn't there."
The major fears are now that the opportunity is being missed to treat the landslip before winter rains again make the situation worse.
Cllr Gardiner said he had been "quite hard" on the county council because of the fears of residents. He had walked the area above the slip with Mr Peacey and Mr Morgan, and the plan now was to dig two large drains to take water round the unstable area before attempting to remove the "toe" of the slip.
"I believe they are starting within the next week or two," he said, adding that Mr Morgan had seemed happy with the plan.
•Workmen moved quickly at the weekend to fell overhanging trees made unstable in the slip. The timber was collected on behalf of a group of Lydbrook pubs who plan to chop it up and sell it to raise funds for local pensioners.