Bellway solves lorry problem

Congestion caused by heavy vehicles servicing a new Bellway Homes site is said to have made life an early-morning misery for motorists and foot-bound pupils making their way to St Maurice’s High School.

Residents in the up-market Collingwood estate were also claimed to be affected by the streams of heavy lorries and vans.

But now the vehicles said to have been causing the jam - reckoned to be at least 20 lorries and vans on average - are no longer said to be a nuisance on key thoroughfare Atholl Drive .

One local resident, who asked not to be named, said: “It was a nightmare but now things are 100 per cent better, and we can only cross our fingers and hope it stays that way.”

A spokesperson for Bellway said: “The weather was behind the delays, because the ground conditions made everything far more difficult.

“However now work is progressing well on site, and we have also established on-site parking.”

Local residents are being assured the long-running problems caused by the winter have effectively been solved, and that with ground conditions now satisfactory the speed of work has greatly increased.