ANGRY parish councillors who claim their complaints are being ignored are to go straight to the top with their protests.

Warndon Parish Council members say Worcester City Council is not responding to their letters.

So now they are to cut out the middle men - by writing directly to the chief executive.

Chairman Bunny Clutterbuck said letters written by the clerk, Les Bishop, were being ignored by city chiefs.

"The clerk writes with the authority of the council and he writes to every department of the city council," said Mr Clutterbuck.

"He does not write for himself, he writes on behalf of all of us and with our authority.

"But very few people take any notice of him.

"If he does get a letter back, that man is passing the buck from one department to another."

Giving an example, Mr Bishop said he had sent e-mails to officers at the city council concerning weeds on Woodgreen Drive roundabout two weeks ago, and had not yet had a reply.

"There has not even been an acknowledgement," said Mr Bishop.

"It has been going on and on and on and nobody seems to take one iota of notice of us," said Mr Clutterbuck at the parish council meeting on Monday.

At the meeting, parish council members listed the problems Warndon Villages faces that should be addressed by the city council.

Among the complaints were the roundabouts that block visibility and the amounts of rubbish around the parish.

Parish council member with responsibility for environmental matters Yvonne Griffiths also raised the matter of the smell created by Cosworth on Wainwright Road.

"I received a letter from Paul Yates at the city council. He said he'd stayed there for 45 minutes and had noticed a little bit of a smell, but it wasn't anything he could do anything about," Mrs Griffiths said.

However, the parish council members disagreed with this assessment, and member Frank Lauriello said one night the smell had been "mind-blowing".

Members of the council decided to write to council chief executive David Wareing personally and Mr Lauriello offered to show him around the villages, pointing out the various problems.