Dromore: How can a council quickly spend £116k?

Tom Fairley said he would like to see the River Lagan, which runs through the town, turned into a focal point by building a walkway across it.

He said: “Anybody else in any other country in the world would utilise their natural resources. Here we just bury it.”

Eleanor Shields, a retired council worker who has lived in Dromore her whole life, said she was cross that the funding had not yet been spent on improving the look of the town centre.

She added she hoped it was not “spent on something trivial” to meet the new deadline.

“Even if they painted it, it would improve it,” she said, pointing to a derelict building in the town centre.