PICS & VIDEO: Protesters halt trucks trawling mud through Notts village

Huthwaite residents have protested to halt lorries dragging mud through their village today.
Protesters had a 'lie-down' in the road to prevent trucks transporting dirt onto Brierley Forest Golf Club.Protesters had a 'lie-down' in the road to prevent trucks transporting dirt onto Brierley Forest Golf Club.
Protesters had a 'lie-down' in the road to prevent trucks transporting dirt onto Brierley Forest Golf Club.

Niehhbours have been in uproar over mud trawled through Main Street, and they thought they had won a battle to clean up the town.

But the middy roads have continued as trucks carry dirt onto the Brierley Forest golf club as part of a project to extend the course, said Councillor Lee Anderson.

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After petitioning by local councillors, the club's owner agreed to lay on additional road sweepers and install a wheel-washing unit for trucks coming on and off the site, but no such unit has been seen.

Protesters had a 'lie-down' in the road to prevent trucks transporting dirt onto Brierley Forest Golf Club.Protesters had a 'lie-down' in the road to prevent trucks transporting dirt onto Brierley Forest Golf Club.
Protesters had a 'lie-down' in the road to prevent trucks transporting dirt onto Brierley Forest Golf Club.

Residents were out in force this morning (Friday, December 2) to stand in the way of the Leedale trucks and held up signs saying 'muck off'', and 'no more muck'.

Trucks were said to be 'gridlocked' by the protesters, after the Golf Club owner guarenteed to the Chad that when deliveries restarted, wheel-washing would be on site.

Coun Anderson said: "Enough is enough. We said we would wait and see if the club put in the wheel washers and we gave them a chance, but nothing has changed.

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"It turns out there is no wheel wash there at all so now it is the time for action. I will be organising a residents demo for the coming week."

The local residents are angry with mud being trawled through the streets of the village despite calls for the golf club to act.The local residents are angry with mud being trawled through the streets of the village despite calls for the golf club to act.
The local residents are angry with mud being trawled through the streets of the village despite calls for the golf club to act.

The owner of Brierley Forest Golf Club Andrew Phantom responded: "On Tuesday October 15 the road sweeper provided by the contractors, Leedale, on a a daily basis did not arrive until 11 am. This created a three-hour build-up of mud during that morning. I spoke with my local counciller Lee Anderson to explain the situation and he called me two days later to thanks me for dealing with the matter satisfactorily.

Brierley Forest Golf Club is a community conscious club. One good example of this is my decision to allow parents dropping off and collecting children at St John David school to park for free whilst the new school was being built."

I look forward to advertising the opening our new par-three golf course in 2017 which will supplement our current initiative of free membership for children under the age of sixteen.

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When pressed on the issue of wheel washing he said: "This is a historic issue and I'm satisfied it's resolved. There a road sweeper every day - there aren't any delivers on site at the moment so there's no wheel washers in place. We haven't had deliveries for six days because to the wet conditions and we will be starting deliveries again from tomorrow.

Mr Phantom guaranteed that when deliveries resume on the site, wheel washing will be active. It's unknown if the wheel washers were in place today.

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