DEADLOCK over who should pay for landscaping roundabouts on a road development has left the site an eyesore.
Work on the A55 Warren Bank interchange in Broughton was completed last December but promised landscaping has not been carried out.
Residents and community leaders say the roundabouts are an eyesore and covered in weeds and rubble.
Flintshire Council says the Welsh Government should foot the bill, but the Government claims the work is the council’s responsibility.
Broughton councillor David McFarlane believes the cost should be met by decision makers in Cardiff.
He said: “This was the Government’s project but the work has not been completed and it is has been left unfinished.
“It is supposed to be a gateway to Wales and at the moment it looks awful.”
Cllr McFarlane has written to the Government, urging it to carry out the work as soon as possible. Neal Cockerton, Flintshire Council’s head of assets and transportation, has said contractors are due to return to the site before Christmas but insists the Government will be paying.
He said: “The Welsh Government will be meeting the cost of the environmental work to the roundabouts as the work is part of the Warren Bank interchange scheme, which it funded.
“The roundabouts are currently the responsibility of the contractor and this will remain the case until such time as the contractors have reinstated the site to the council’s satisfaction.”
But the Government maintains it has completed all agreed works and any extra landscaping should be paid for by the council.
A spokesman said: “The Welsh Government has completed the landscape works on the Warren Bank interchange roundabouts on budget and within time.
“The extent of landscaping was previously agreed with the local authority.