RESIDENTS have clubbed together to tell a golf course owner to clean-up his act.
They claim wagons are being allowed to drive down Hart Common, Westhoughton, leaving a trail of dirt and debris in their wake.
Around 50 of the neighbours packed into a local pub demanding answers with councillors, who met with them, promising action would be taken against drivers who break the terms of their working conditions.
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The wagons are driving to Hart Common Golf Course as part of a remodelling project before their set time of 8am.
Residents say no action is being taken by to make them clean-up the roads.
The meeting was attended by Cllr Sean Hornby, chairman of the planning and highways committee at Bolton Council, local councillor David Chadwick and Town councillor Harry Bowling and it was led by chairman of Common Lane Residents Association.
Janet Jamil, deputy chairman of the residents association, who lives of Wigan Road, Bolton, said: "We have to put up with dust, dirt and debris falling from the lorries. My son has been hit because of what falls off the lorries.
"I have asthma, and I was fine until I moved here 18 months ago. Everything is so dusty. They don't clean up after themselves."
Residents are also upset that the golf course owner was applying for permission not to create another road, which formed part of the first application to remodel the course a few years ago.
Mrs Jamil said: "This road would solve a lot of problems,wagons would be able to bypass our roads and go straight on the ground."
Other residents said lorries were making their way to the golf course before 8am in the morning, and called for action to make the road safer.
Emma Lavender-Birchill, who lives on Wigan Road, said: "Traffic comes down the road at speed. It is not just wagons but all cars. I am frightened to death. This road needs something doing to it."
June Kenyon said, since the work started on the golf course, she has lost her views.
She said: "I want to know whether the levels set down in the plans are being exceeded. The views were the reason I moved here now they have gone."
The councillors assured the residents they were talking to the owner of the golf course, Peter Roberts who said measures were being take to address their concerns.
Cllr Hornby said: "He has told us he will be writing to the contractor asking them to sheet their vehicles and not to come before 8am.
"We have spoken to him and been on site. Enforcement officers from the council are also visiting the area regularly."
David Smith, spokesman for the golf club, said: "Mr Roberts is looking to working with the residents to improve the situation. Measures have already been implements to ensure vehicles are clean, and he will look to addressing other concerns."
He said an application to withdraw the building of the road had been put in because of "safety concerns"
Mrs Jamil concluded: "I think the meeting went well, our concerns are finally being addressed now we have an association. But it will be a long journey."
Another residents meeting with the councillors together with senior council officers will be held next month.
just a thought as i drive past there every day, to make the roads safer why doesn't everyone park in the side or back streets instead of double parking on the main road and footpaths.
just a thought as i drive past there every day, to make the roads safer why doesn't everyone park in the side or back streets instead of double parking on the main road and footpaths.
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