Residents plan blockade
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IN Furious residents are threatening to block the entrance to a goods depot in the West Midlands because they claim drivers are making their lives a misery.
Sixty families plan to form a human chain across Heathfield Lane West, Darlaston, near Walsall, to prevent the trucks entering or leaving a site owned by AP, which manufactures toilet rolls.
The residents have told Walsall councillor Graham Wilkes of Darlaston South that the truck drivers hoot their horns in the early hours, cause congestion and damage parked cars.
Wilkes says the residents plan to set up a road block with a "human chain" to stop the trucks reaching the site—a meeting is being arranged at Darlaston Town Hall to discuss the plans.
"The company is being invited to attend the meeting and Walsall South MP Bruce George is also being asked to attend," says Wilkes.
One resident says: "Our lives are being made a misery by dozens of truck drivers who visit the AP firm each week. The road is narrow and the trucks have accidentally dented parked cars in the area."
A spokesman for AP says the firm is willing to listen to the residents' complaints and will probably attend the meeting.