My sister works for the Abingdon Town council and asked a contact a couple of days ago and passed on the following response:
“The works on 3B1/2 have all been completed last week. We did have issues with the public using the path before it had the chance to set, and we had to re-do the damaged areas every morning for about 2 weeks before we could start the programmed works.”
I’m planning to try it out with the family on Saturday.