Don’t overlook villagers

The A20 will stay closed until December to allow for the installation of traffic lights outside the 192-home Hinxhill Park estate – an unsightly development where hundreds of trees were cut down to enable the building of town houses, having destroyed countryside, bringing more traffic, air and light pollution at a price no local young people can afford.

Residents from villages around the area already had the inconvenience of long journeys to get their fuel, food and get to the local hospital, this is my village of Aldington included, when the new roundabout was being built for the lorry park and for an electric cable to be installed for the new estate.

We had the A20 closed also because of flooding – not a

surprise considering all the trees they cut down.

What shocked me was what Cllr Paul Bartlett, deputy leader of Ashford Borough Council, said: “When the new residents move in, they will get grumpy very quickly if it’s difficult to exit the estate.”residents, Cllr Bartlett, What about the existing having once again this unnecessary hassle as we approach Christmas?

Do you care about what happens to us? Obviously not.

In Aldington, we have the added closure to our access road to Ashford via Cherry Orchard Lane because of another development.

And soon with the proposed Otterpool Park housing development on Folkestone Racecourse, which has been opposed by most people, our village will be completely marooned.

With climate change on the agenda, stop the damage to our countryside, use existing empty brownfields.

Stop building on greenfields and agricultural land.

Francoise Montford