TRAMP Maidstone

WELCOME

Welcome to Tramp Maidstone, the South West Maidstone Traffic Management Partnership. This site describes and discusses our aspirations to preserve our parishes, villages and local lanes by discussing and putting forward suggestions and implementing ideas to control all types of local traffic.

Introduction:-

South and West Maidstone is an area of relatively unspoiled countryside and attractive villages. The area increasingly suffers from problems of speed and volume of cars and lorries, ‘rat-running’ through the area on unsuitable roads in order to avoid congestion in South Maidstone. These pressures are adversely affecting the safety, quality of life, and the outdoor, informal recreational potential of the area, which is within easy reach of the town.

Partnership:-

The fourteen Parish Councils in the area are now working with MBC and KCC to try and improve the value of country lanes for people to use safely, by reducing traffic problems. The participating parishes are Barming, Boughton Monchelsea, Collier Street, Coxheath, East Farleigh, Hunton, Linton, Loose, Marden, Nettlestead, Staplehurst, Tovil, West Farleigh and Yalding.

Our Overall Objective: -

To restore Quality of Life in the Parishes of SW Maidstone by means of better management of traffic movement in the area.

Benefits:-

Benefits from a successful scheme will include:-

Safer lanes for walkers, with more accessible and joined-up footpaths
Safer routes for horse-riders with quiet lanes linked to bridleways
Safer routes for cyclists in the lanes
Safer routes for children to get to school
Safer routes for careful drivers
Improved village life, as a consequence of reduced speed and volume of traffic

Your help:-

Let us know your ideas to help us. Use the feedback page or e-mail your Parish Council or local representative.