Let us not forget that it was Suffolk County Council which agreed to the expansion of the Ridgeons depot in Herringswell Road.

This has forced HGVs leaving the site to use Dane Hill Road, Church Lane and finally Station Road, where many of the problems really start.

When you also bear in mind that a new business park is set to open in Red Lodge – a development that will see a further 1,500 lorries a week using this "rat run" to get to the A14 – you begin to see where the problem lies.

The fact is these HGVs that ferry our goods to shops and Harwich for export have only one way to get from the A11 to the A14 if they are coming from Mildenhall and beyond – and that's through Kennett.

What is needed is a suitable interchange system that links the A11 to the A14 (not straight across our fields which seems to be in favour).

This way, traffic travelling south would take the first exit for Newmarket and then double back on to the A14, meaning no HGVs would have to travel through our villages.

My second point concerns the new truck stop in Red Lodge.

This is the only place in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire where lorry drivers can stop and rest (they can't just stop anywhere – people don't like it and they need more than a half-hour rest).

Moving the truck stop with all the modern facilities to one end of the village and right next to the A11 would stop HGVs having to use Turnpike Road, where residents have had to put up with kerbside parking and lorries coming and going at all times of the day.

So Suffolk County Council, before you pass any more plans in the area, think how haulage is going from one place to another, especially if it goes through another county.

Our current road system can only be described as a triangle of chaos.

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