NOT everyone is seeing the current work on Coleford's prestige paving project in the new-look town centre in a rosy light.
As workmen place pavers around the town's landmark clocktower, much of the talk in local shops and offices is of the traffic chaos the work has caused.
And many residents are saying that the work should never have started while some of the pavements in the town and adjacent Berry Hill are in such an appalling state.
Berry Hill pensioner Mrs Dorothy Howard said she was shocked by the amount of disruption in the town centre when she brought her disabled husband Ken, 74, into town to shop.
The fact that work was going ahead on a smart pedestrian area which would eventually be used by market traders, while back in Berry Hill some pavements were in "a terrible state", made her particularly angry.
"My husband, who has artificial elbows and hip replacements, likes to go for a walk but he can only go with my assistance," she said. "There are parts of Berry Hill where we have to walk in the road the pavements are so bad."
She said she made a trip into town to the butcher after dropping her husband at Pyart Court in the week and had found it impossible to get back to the main Somerfield Supermarket car park afterwards without driving out of town to approach from the other direction.
Mr Howard, who finds it very difficult to walk without assistance, had been forced to make his way to the smaller car park in front of the supermarket on his own to rendezvous with her.
"If he had fallen over it would be an ambulance case – it would not be a matter of just picking him up," she said.
"They go ahead with these things without thinking of anyone else," she said. "Why make pedestrian areas in the town at all? And why move the market? They are behaving as if it is a much bigger place like Monmouth. I think it is a complete waste of money, especially with the way pavements are in places in the town and at Berry Hill."
She said she wondered where market traders would be able to park when the town centre work was finished, and what facilities would remain for orange badge holders like her husband.
"It is bad enough at the moment. The parking places are hard enough to reach while all this is going on. It is disgraceful."