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 on to 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.”

The work was commissioned by North Yorkshire County Council. A spokesman said it was aware of the complaint and it is under investigation.