Crown Road Shoreham - the wrong sort of yellow lines

In June the Sevenoaks Jojnt Transportation Board voted to put in yellow lines at the corner of Crown Road and High Street in Shoreham. The lines have now been painted, but not in the style that residents had hoped for.

When yellow lines were first proposed for Shoreham, a number of residents expressed concern at they would be too intrusive for the village. I therefore secured from Kent Highways an agreement that the yellow lines would be in a style suitable for a conservation area, in a primrose yellow and rather narrower than the standard lines. This commitment has been repeated at least once since then. However - and I think that this is because of changes in personnel in Kent Highways, resulting in a loss of continuity in handling the issue - what we have is standard yellow lines.

I have raised the issue with Kent Highways and will endeavour to get it resolved as soon as possible. Replacing yellow lines once they are painted is not quite as simple as we might think (or as I might have thought), but the problem clearly needs to be resolved and will be, so that these necessary measures are carried out in a way that suits the character of the village.