Road repairs not a patch on what they should be

I have just witnessed a combination of poor workmanship and bad practice.

Outside my house there has been some patch repair to the road without first raking any loose material from the carriageway; tarmac was used to repair a concrete road. A quick look at the Highways Agency guidelines will clearly show this is poor practice.

Compounding this probelem (and somewhat worse) the workmen - presumably still being paid by the County Council (ie us, the ratepayers) - are going around knocking on doors to do private resurfacing work for residents' drives for cash.

I cannot yet say that this is fraudulent (although I assume the materials and labour are being paid for by us) but the contract should be administered in such a way as to make this kind of behaviour impossible.