1:00pm Saturday 10th October 2009
By Naomi Loomes
Fed up residents are claiming their windows are rattling and their lives are being cut short by traffic pollution.
People who live in the Carlyle Street area of Brighton gathered outside Hove Town Hall to voice their anger at Brighton and Hove City Council for not doing more to help them.
Nancy Platts, the Labour parliamentary candidate for Brighton Pavilion, joined around 50 people outside the council offices to deliver a letter asking officials to stop the road being used as a rat run which was causing noise and air pollution and putting lives in danger.
She said speeding 38-tonne lorries were using Carlyle Street, near Elm Grove School, as a cut through to get to the new industrial estate at the bottom of Freshfield Road while ignoring the 20mph speed limit.
Residents in the London Road area have formed their own group to challenge the council on pollution where they live.
And last month residents from the Lewes Road formed an action group to monitor traffic levels in their area.
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