Our pavement is so green it looks like SHREK… it’s disgusting and we can’t stand it
A GREEN footpath has been blasted as “disgusting” after locals compared the colour of the paint to “Shrek.”
Councillor Louie O’Leary has slammed the "puke" colour of the historic harbour of the seaside town in Weymouth, Dorset.
Angry locals are begging the council to change the colour of the pathway back, with some calling the “puke green” pavement “vile.”
The pathway is part of a seven month long project to resurface and improve the street scene, but many have slammed the decision to paint it green.
Cllr O'Leary said: "I've raised the Shrek coloured Quay with the cabinet member for highways. It's disgusting.
"I was the only member of the south and west area planning committee to vote against the current harbour scheme last year and feel very vindicated in doing so.
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"However if we're going to have it, let's make the most of it."
Other unimpressed locals have blasted it as a “playground” and asked why they had been banned from making their own improvements.
Local Aaron Grant Jones said: "You can't modernise your windows along there, but you can paint the pavement puke green? Solid logic."
Jane Long added: "Our lovely working harbour looks like a playground."
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Another Weymouth resident joked: "When they said they wanted everyone and everything to go green, someone at the council took the idea quite literally."
William Evans said: "Walked along it yesterday. It was vile, incredibly uninviting."
Other locals have said that it is ruining the historic look of the harbour, with Stuart Law adding: "In no way is this in keeping with an historic harbour.
“The Council have broken their own Conservation Area rules, by not replacing like for like."
But not everyone agreed with Cllr O'Leary, with others saying it did not look too bad and would “enhance” the area.
It is not the first time the council faced criticism for 'ghastly' changes to the harbour.
Officials came under fire in April last year after installing new safety railings to stop people falling into the water that some said looked like cheap scaffolding poles.
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Many voiced their anger that this would put an end to the age-old tradition of people sitting on the harbour wall to eat fish and chips and restrict crabbers from dangling their lines in the water.
Weymouth Harbour was formed in the 12th century in what is now the old town of the seaside resort.
During the Second World War 'little ships' set off from the quayside to help with the Dunkirk evacuation and thousands of troops embarked on landing craft for D-Day there.
The route for the new footways was closed for months and the area turned into a building site as the work was carried out.
The programme of works started last October and has included footway widened and resurfaced, kerbs realigned, roads resurfaced and new drainage channels installed.
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But the project is behind schedule and expected to finish on May 27.
Dorset Council said it will be installing benches along the harbourside footway, erecting signs, reinstating bollards and finishing lining work over the next month.