FED up Trowbridge councillors are sick and tired over the repeated delays over an announcement about what is going to happen at the derelict Bowyers site.

The 10-acre site closed in April 2008 and despite Innox Mills buying the place in the Spring of 2016, Trowbridge residents are still waiting to see an exhibition of its proposals - something it said it would do more than a year ago.

Cllrs Phoebe Kemp and Thomas Bazan joined the town council in May and already they are frustrated with how long this is taking and have called on Innox to make sure they deliver leisure and retail facilities there.

“It is getting ridiculous. It has been dragging on for such a long time,” said Cllr Bazan.

“The town has been left in the dark on this. It is the biggest eye-sore in Trowbridge. We keep hear that discussions are ongoing but nothing happens.

“It needs to be mixed between housing and leisure, I believe. We don’t want it to become an urban sprawl. If we can bring in some jobs too that would be good.”

Cllr Graham Payne in particular has been on at the London-based business consortium of property investors every few months, to no avail.

Cllr Kemp said: “I moved here three years ago and nothing has happened. We are always told ‘in a couple of months’ but it is well over a year. There is space by the river that could be really attractive.

“It is incredibly frustrating.”

Jonathan Dean from Innox Mills said: ‘Our plans for Innox Mills continue to move forward and despite some delays, we are now in late talks with a development partner and are looking forward to announcing more details when the legal process is complete.”