I AM writing to you about the total disruption we as villagers in Leonard Stanley are experiencing due to the construction at Mankley Fields, and it is far from pleasant.
Suffice it to say that when planning permission was given for this development no one considered the effect the construction of these houses would have on our environment.
The construction vehicles are huge – and the only way out of the village is via Stanley Downton.
I am sure I do not need to point out to you that this road was not designed for such vehicles, nevertheless that is what is happening.
Leaving the village and travelling to Stanley Downton the verges on the left-hand side of the road are gradually being eroded by these huge heavy vehicles (you cannot call them lorries) and these will never be reinstated.
On the opposite side of the road the kerbs have become blackened with the tyre marks from vehicles being forced against them to avoid a collision.
Such has happened to me with the consequence that I have damaged two tyres on my car so badly I have had to have them replaced for my own safety at a cost of £200, but with no recompense from those involved.
Obviously, they are so much larger than our domestic cars so we stand no chance at all.
It is either dive for the kerb or suffer the consequences!
The constructor’s vehicles are starting to destroy the small traffic island at the junction of Marsh Road with Bath Road, as well as leaving a trail of dust and dirt on our village streets, and all this when the site in question is still in its early stages.
What the village will look like by the end is impossible to say!
The responsibility for this must surely be with you the council – when granting planning permission no one could have possible considered the size and weight of the construction vehicles needed to erect the houses in question, you only considered what it would be like afterwards and now we the villages are being subjected to all this disruption and destruction of our roads and verges.
I am sure that I am not the only villager who feels as I do!!
May I ask who is responsible for all of this and to whom do I approach for compensation?
Averil G Craddock
Leonard Stanley
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