Concern over road closures in Preston, near Canterbury

Parish council chairman's concerns over road closures in Preston, near Canterbury

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00:00 We've got constant road closures through the village and it's been absolutely devastating

00:06 for the business, the village shop, the butchers, the garden centre. We've got two wedding businesses,

00:12 they've all had problems as a result of the road closures, they've all lost revenue.

00:15 We've got single or two house developments going up that have been approved by Dover District Council

00:23 and every time they're built, connections have to be made and we get a road closure for each

00:31 connection. So you might have two or three closures for each house that's built and I

00:36 just think there needs to be a bit more thought going into it from Dover Planning in terms of the

00:42 impact that it has on local residents with parents trying to get their kids to school,

00:50 the bus stops running whenever there's a road closure, people struggle to get to work and the

00:54 businesses suffer. Everyone's getting really angry, it's getting absolutely fed up. It has been going

01:00 on for 12 months, it's probably been going on for longer. I think it just seems like we've had

01:05 a closure every month at least and it can't go on like this.