BELMONT RURAL LETTERS

Westholme Road woes about
Mulberry Close site access
I write in response to Cllr Phil Edwards email 197, dated January 19, 2010. We appreciate your comments and wholeheartedly agree that Kingfisher Road would have provided better access due to the size and width of the road. The day the site started I was asked rudely to move my car off my drive so a lorry could unload. As you can imagine this was not a good start.

We as residents of Westholme Road who live opposite Mulberry Close have to put up with the constant barrage of lorries, watching them reversing down a narrow road, driving over pavements, ripping up the grass and leaving the road looking like the field they have just left.

As we understand it all lorries when reversing should have someone to watch them and this does not happen. I am required to work this way when I reverse a large vehicle at work. Surely this is common sense when huge lorries are manoeuvring on a residential estate with young children. Today we had three lorries parked in Mulberry Close waiting to enter the site and blocking off entrances and drives.

Yesterday a lorry parked across the entrance to Mulberry Close. The driver left the vehicle and walked down the road to the site, causing traffic to wait or attempt to turn in the road.

We have never objected to the houses being built or about this access to the site after completion. Our objection has always been that Westholme and Mulberry are not suitable for plant access.

Gary Fleet
February 18 2010

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