The Furzehill Local Action for a Safer Hamlet group held a day of action on 14 May 2004 to highlight the problems caused by lorries being driven through the Hamlet of Furzehill. This is in support of a Village Plan, which is now being reviewed by the Dorset County Council.

Lorries were causing a problem so much so that in Wimborne and Colehill a weight restriction was granted. This now means that the lorries that used those roads are now diverted to Furzehill. Our little village lane obviously was never meant to take this kind of traffic. We believe that the original intention must have been to encourage the lorries to use the bypass and so we are asking the Council to help us, in the same way they helped Wimborne and Colehill, by extending the weight restriction to include Furzehill. This means the lorries will go on the roads that were designed and constructed to take them - the bypass.

The lorries make a huge impact on the lives of the residents at Furzehill with roaring noise and front gardens being damaged as they try to pass each other on the narrow lane. The vibration is terrible and they thunder past our homes from six thirty in the morning to eleven at night all week. It is making our lives a misery and we want the Council to take action on our behalf.

We will continue to campaign to obtain this weight restriction.