NEIGHBOURS of the new Waitrose supermarket in Chandler's Ford are demanding action over parking and traffic.

Fryern Residents' Association - which campaigned against the 42,000 sq ft branch being built on their doorstep - says it is still waiting for parking controls and traffic calming five months after the store opened.

When it granted planning permission for the supermarket in Oakmount Road, Eastleigh council insisted on developers' contributions from Waitrose to pay for measures mainly intended to cut traffic danger and noise.

But speaking at a meeting of the borough's Chandler's Ford and Hiltingbury local area committee, past chairman of the residents' association Malcolm Mathews asked councillors: "Could I remind you of promises made to residents several months ago?''

He said there had been so little action that even subsidence in a service road behind Oakmount Road, which had resulted in a dangerous pothole, had not been repaired four months after it was reported.

Last year the council arranged an exhibition and other public consultation to ask residents what they thought would be the best way to spend the developers' contributions.

Ideas included residents parking bays in Oakmount Road, and time-limited parking elsewhere. Symbolic gateways were suggested to slow drivers turning into residential roads off Oakmount Road and narrow pinch-points were also put forward, together with a pedestrian crossing near the Fryern schools.

Mr Mathews also said the association still wanted something to be done about parking by supermarket workers.

He said he understood that organising council finances took time, but added that fixing a hole in the road "can't cost an arm and a leg."

Chairman of the local committee, Councillor Godfrey Olson, said the consultation ideas had been sent to Hampshire County Council for a safety audit.

A county council spokeswoman said highway engineers had to follow all the appropriate procedures to design a scheme that was appropriate.

"These things take time. It would be nice if we could snap our fingers and get a scheme in very quickly."

She said the council was not aware of the problem pothole, although a temporary repair had been made to some uneven slabs.

"An engineer will visit the alleyway to look at the pothole, and it will be repaired as soon as we can."