A town councillor is fuming after workers clumsily painted no-waiting hatch lines near his market stall in Skipton town centre.

The lines, next to Councillor Martin Emmerson’s slipper stall at Manby’s Corner, have left rivulets of yellow paint running along the joints between the setts.

Coun Emmerson, who describes the work as “slipshod” and an “eyesore”, also claims the lines have been laid in the wrong place and encroach onto his plot.

And within a few days of the work being completed, parts of it had worn away.

He said the hatching has replaced double yellow line markings which were two feet away from where the new marks have been painted.

He added: “What makes the matter worse is that I understand the people who did it were paid £750 for a job that they did in a couple of hours and left such a shoddy mess. It’s not the only place they painted on the same night.

“They did the hatching at the entrance to Bay Horse Yard further up and they painted white disabled warning on the setts outside the Nat West Bank further down. And they are just as bad.

“Can you believe that this has been allowed to happen in a place which was named the Best High Street in the UK? It needs to be done again.”

The work was commissioned by North Yorkshire County Council.

A spokesman for the council said it was aware of the complaint and it is under investigation.