Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#1
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/dover/news/nighmare-noise-of-lorry-horns-126912/
constance while tap is on,lot of residents complaining about it,but nothing being done about it.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#2
This has been going on for ages Brian, are you councillors like the ones in St Radigunds and just get voted in and then do nothing?
People have to get up for work and children for school so they need a decent nights sleep.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#3
don't see them,apart from that not sure who they are any more.
Andy B
- Location: dover
- Registered: 10 Nov 2012
- Posts: 1,829
#4
There are many complaints of noise,trucks blocking the road trying to get into the yard opposite Jewsons in Coombe valley road.Council said they was looking into it as the yard might have been illegal but this was over a year ago,nothing heard or mentioned since in the local rag.It still carries on regardless.Dont know if it was ever sorted out.
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Guest 1713- Registered: 14 Mar 2016
- Posts: 110
#5
I've seen traffic wardens up there issuing tickets early in the mornings . When you get 2 or 3 of them parked up over the weekend by Monday morning it stinks of urine etc and is an eyesore with bottles of urine, food wrappers and beer cans and bottles left behind by this incondiserate tw $@s not to mention the danger of pedestrians having to walk in the road past the hgv's
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Guest 649- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 14,118
#6
I agree with what you are saying it should be stopped we all need to live in our homes in peace.
Guest 1033- Registered: 23 Aug 2013
- Posts: 509
#7
Have to sympathise with the Aycliffe residents, I can remember even fifteen years ago seeing the sky turn yellow from the amount of sulphur (apparently now spelt the u.s. way, 'sulfur') in the air. The A20 past Aycliffe and Avo (Megger ?) and down through Snargate Street is probably one of the most dangerous roads in Kent to negotiate, and of course, the local residents see very little, if any, benefit from living in a hugely profitable ferry port. The unfortunate thing is that the port and the town have been separated from eachother so that the profits go elsewhere other than the local residents, and hardly anyone who suffers from the downsides get any advantages from the 'up-sides'.
What is even worse for Aycliffe is that it is historically a council estate, and so will be lumbered with the noise and pollution in preference to the 'villages' of river and whitfield. Its very unlikely you will ever find a local MP of a member of the landed gentry moving in up the estate, so I would guess you'll have to find a different way of dealing with the problem.
I'm sure you have local councillors who will take up the challenge, but even if the lights were moved back a bit, you will still suffer from Dover's yellow sky.
I would never advocate any course of direct action (thought never even crossed my mind m'lud) but I wonder how the slightly-more-militant-than-us French might act in similar circumstances.
In the UK it is illegal to sound your horn whilst stationary, police should nick them, give them on the spot fines and send them to the back of the queue.
Nearly another rant, must watch my bp...
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