Concern over village road danger

A BROAD OAK grandmother appealed for traffic calming measures to be installed on the main road through the village when she attended a public meeting on Tuesday night.

Mrs Rosemary Thompson, who lives on the road, told the Heathfield annual assembly that children were being encouraged to walk to school yet there were places where the footpath was no more than 18 inches wide and it was very dangerous with heavy traffic using the road.

After the meeting, at the community centre in Sheepsetting Lane, Heathfield, Mrs Thompson told the Express it was hair-raising walking along the road because of the narrow footpath which was affected by a hedge growing out over it.

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'The path is also very, very uneven and if you are walking along it at night it is as if you were drunk, the path is never where you expect it to be,' she said.

Mrs Thompson said it was terrifying to walk along the road with a buggy and with a child walking too it was even more frightening.

Parish clerk Mrs Diana Francis said it was one of the council's priorities to get something done about the road and it was something that district councillor Mrs Margaret Kirkpatrick had been pressing for for years. 'The parish council has tried its best to bring this problem to the attention of the county council and will continue to so so,' said Mrs Francis.

She urged as many people as possible to complain about the road to make sure the county council had as much evidence as possible about the dangers.

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