A warning sign has been put up in a bid to stop parking problem affecting people living in South Willesborough have started turning.

The sign has been installed at the end of Canterbury Road, South Willesborough warning truckers against driving down the residential street.

But it has taken four years and one month of letters, emails and phone calls from crusading pensioner Margaret Pryke, Cllr David Smith (Ind) and Ashford MP Damian Green to get road bosses to take action.

Mrs Pryke lives in Canterbury Road and has been calling for the sign as lorries driving up Orbital Park’s Monument Way sometimes turn right into Canterbury Road and either park or realise they are in a residential street and attempt to turn, often causing damage to the pavement.

Mrs Prkye is glad road bosses are finally taking action. She said: “Hopefully things will be a little quieter, expecially at night.

“However, it’s not the sign we were promised.

“We’ll wait and see if lorry drivers take notice of it but I’ve not closed the file.”

Mrs Pryke wanted road bosses to go further and install a larger sign and another in Orbital Park directing lorries away from South Willeborough. A sign has been installed directing drivers around the roundabout but it does not refer to HGVs.

Cllr Smith is now calling for a sign to be installed in Fairview Drive, the left turn at the end of Monument Way.

Damian Green said: “Every Road had lorries parked on both sides, and for two cars to pass each other is extremely dangerous.

“The sign will make some difference, and is a small step forward, but it is clear that a long-term solution is needed which takes parked lorries elsewhere."

Full story in Thursday's Kentish Express