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Junction plan to ease congestion
RESIDENTS in Shepway are op- posing a KCC plan to realign the Wheatsheaf junction on the Sutton Road. The Maidstone Joint Transporta-
tion Board is proposing to close the Cranborne Avenue junction (pic- tured), near the confluence of Sutton Road and Loose Road, to ease traffic congestion and reduce air pollution. The board wants to realign the junction and traffic lights and close the end of CranborneAvenue, which would sendmuchof the traffic using the Wheatsheaf junction along PlainsAvenue. The closure of CranborneAvenue
was mootedmanyyears ago and vo- ciferously opposed. Bill Laidler, neighbourhoodwatch co-ordinator for Upper Marion Cres- cent, said: “Yet again we must chal- lenge this ill-conceived plan. “If this plan were to be imple- mented, it would force all traffic cur- rently using the Wheatsheaf junction to join and leave the Loose Road at PlainsAvenue. “Imagine the chaos that would
bring, particularly with the 900+ cars emanating from the houses being built on the Sutton Road that will
soon be using the junction.” Mr Laidler believes the extra traf-
fic in Lower Marion Crescent and PlainsAvenue would be unbearable and merely relocate the air pollution to the Plains Avenue/Loose Road junction. He plans to organise a petition for residents in Marion Crescent, Cran- borne Avenue, Lyndhurst, Ring- wood, Brockenhurst and the Loose Road end of PlainsAvenue. He said: “Unless the residents challenge this, it will be imple- mented on public health grounds. “If allowed to proceed, it will
cause hardship to the residents of the area and much more impor- tantly, create a potential accident blackspot at the junction of Plains Avenue and Loose Road. “It will also fail to properly ad-
dress the most important point of ex- cessive pollution in certain areas.”
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MAIDSTONE’S Joint Transporta- tion Board has agreed to make per- manent a series of temporary measures brought in six months ago to prevent anti-social behav- iour by lorry drivers parking in Old Chatham Road, Sandling. The board heard there were still
some issues caused by overnight parking in the layby close to Blue- bells estate, but the traffic manage- ment bollards had been a success. Residents have complained for
years about the constant noise from refrigerated lorries andwaste being dumped in the hedgerows. Resident Barry Stevens told the meeting he had found toilet tissue in his garden where his four-year- old child played, while Doris Even- den said the layby had become a
downsmail.co.uk Layby changes to remain
magnet for fly-tippers, with televi- sionsbeingdumpedalongside bot- tles of urine. Work will now be undertaken to improve the path which is shared by pedestrians, horse riders and cy- clists, which bypasses the layby, as this is unfit for use in its present state. As the path is part of a national
cycle route,KCCis confident of re- ceiving funding so the work can proceed. CllrWendy Hinder said: “It is not perfect, but it has resolved a lot of the problems. The layby is rela- tively free from litter and is no longer being used as a toilet. Any return to its previous state would have been a retrograde step and disastrous for the residents.”
Trust denies death charge
MAIDSTONE and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust denied corporate manslaughter following the death of a primary school teacher after an emer- gency Caesarean operation. Frances Cappuccini,whotaught at Offham Primary School, died aged 30,
hours after giving birth to her second son in TunbridgeWells Hospital in October 2012. In a ground-breaking case, the NHS trust has been charged with corpo-
rate manslaughter alongside Dr Nadeem Aziz and consultant anaesthetist Errol Cornish. Cornish (67), from Bromley, denied the charge at the High Court in Lon-
don. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Aziz (52), formerly from TunbridgeWells, who is believed to be in Pakistan. The trial is due to start on January 12, 2016.
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