An overgrown roundabout with weeds growing metres high “hasn’t been touched since last winter”, a resident has claimed.

We reported last week on the state of the roundabout, at the foot of Dover Hill, which is also an escape lane for motorists whose brakes have failed.

Stephen Shaw, of Fleming Way, Folkestone, chairman of the Creteway Down Residents’ Association, says he has complained to Kent County Council on several occasions.

He said his committee often raises money for flowers to be planted where possible.

Mr Shaw, 60, a former Navy officer, said: “The Hawkinge roundabout is also an escape lane but it is in a much better condition and there are a lot of daffodils planted there.

“We have been the ones planting in this area for years.

“My daughter comes to pick me up and she said she can’t see the other side of the roundabout when she approaches it. If a car stops we could hit it as you can’t see at all.”

The father-of-five is calling for Kent County Council’s highways department to clear the roundabout of the debris.

He said: “If they can’t do the job then they should find someone else.”

Community worker Jon Clarke, from Folkestone Baptist Church in Hill Road, said that the church is willing to sponsor a roundabout tidy-up.

This would also allow for a small promotional sign to be erected when it has been cleared.

A KCC spokesman said: “A traffic management plan is being arranged to allow the works to be carried out safely. Once this has been agreed, the works will be carried out thereafter.

“The arrester bed, designed to stop a runaway vehicle, is regularly monitored by our highways stewards and works to the roundabout are carried out annually, or more frequently if the need should arise.”