COUNCILLORS are frustrated at a three-year delay to repairing Bradford on Avon's tennis courts.

Bradford mayor Vicky Landell Mills said: "They are very popular and are in a bad state of repair.

"We have been trying for years now to get them onto the district council's budget. There's all this emphasis on sporty things and being active and because they are bang in the middle of town they are very accessible."

The courts, which belong to West Wiltshire District Council, have damaged, uneven surfaces and poor netting.

Cllr Landell Mills said there have been multiple efforts to get the court refurbishment onto the district council's budget and when Andrew Pate, chief executive of West Wiltshire District Council, came to visit the town in July he was shown the poor state of the tennis courts.

Cllr Landell Mills said: "If you run over the uneven ground you can do yourself an injury."

Cllr Martin Sandford, chairman of the Bradford Town Council's leisure, youth and arts committee, said: "For the size of the town we ought to have, in that prime location, some good facilities."

He said the tennis courts, as they are now, could be dangerous, although it is just about possible to play on them.