Villages need a relief road now
Editor News editor We secured around 1,600 signatures in a petition supporting the LeedsLangley relief road presented to the Joint Transportation Board (JTB).
There were 400 signatures from Langley residents alone, giving a very clear indication many residents are in favour of the relief road, as well Leeds village, Willington Street and local residents.
Houses will be built over time regardless and we would all be better off if they were planned with the right road infrastructure. It’s not that new homes are wrong, it’s wrong when they are built without the roads to go with them.
What South Maidstone needs is a relief road and it needs it now, not in 10 years’ time.
I hope KCC don’t miss, in any road-volume monitoring they do now, is the thousands of extra cars from the thousands of new homes in the MBC housing plan over the next few years, from homes not yet built.
We must lift this from a debate about “NIMBY-ism” and the best way to do this is build the roads before the homes are built.
The strength of feeling is growing locally and the borough and parish elections are not far away. One person locally may stand as an Independent candidate (Langley & Sutton Valence Borough Council).
I’m grateful to the JTB who I am informed unanimously voted in favour of the principle of the South Maidstone Relief road this month.
KCC should get the route options worked out soonest, in tandem with the volume of new homes planned, and consult to build it as soon as possible. John Govett Leeds Parish Council