A couple have slammed their bumbling council for spending 130,000 pounds on a puffin crossing which was built directly outside the driveway they had just been given planning permission for.

The crossing outside Angela and Robin Wray's home has been left unused with orange hoods over the lights for two years thanks to the monumental blunder.

And even though the Wrays won a decision to use their drive the council are still deciding whether to switch the lights on.

The Wrays were granted permission to build a drive outside their pleasant home in Holmfirth, West Yorks., in June 2007 but were horrified to find that Kirklees Council was building the costly white elephant just four months later.

Embarrassment was heaped on the council earlier this week when it was revealed that a whopping 130,000 pounds had been blown on the redundant crossing.

Angela said: "I don't know why they have built the crossing before getting the required stopping-up order. To risk such a huge amount of money must be sheer madness. It's a mess."