Residents whose homes are set to be just metres from the new road have almost given up hope of ever fighting the experts.
Pearl Frost, 75, has lived in her Romulus Close bungalow for 40 years.
Not a happy lady - Pearl Frost says she has almost given up hope of fighting the plans. Picture: STEVE ARGENT
She said: "I feel terrible about it, really. I feel the technical people from highways want the road to go through and don't want it to cost any more, so they won't move it.
"Moving it just 50 metres would make our lives so much easier. They said they would build a brick wall, but I don't want a brick wall in front of my front window. It's not even pavement width from our wall to that boundary."
She added: "We don't want to move. I have lived here for 40 years. I am all for building but not before people. I am not a happy lady."
Her partner, Bill Webb, 80, also feels the residents were overwhelmed by expert jargon at last night's meeting.
He said: "The trouble with these things is you have experts on one side and lay people on the other, and the experts can just roll around them. It's hopeless really."
Published Friday, August 1, 2003
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