At its recent meeting, Maldon Town Council discussed the idea of extending the 20mph limit, which is now in place for the High Street and Market Hill, to other neighbouring roads.

Obvious candidates would be Mill Road and Wantz Road.

Half of Mill Road has a pavement on one side and front doors on the other side that open straight onto the road behind a row of parked vehicles, so all the traffic speeds down the “wrong” side of the road.

The other half of Mill Road is nominally two-way, but in practice a single lane because of parked cars and includes the exit from the Lower Plume school.

In Wantz Road, there is virtually a chicane of parked vehicles and the road is used and crossed by children going to Maldon Primary and the Upper Plume.

There then arises a strong argument for including other roads leading to and from the High Street.

They are all restricted in one way or another.

Such is the nature of the old part of many towns such as Maldon.

Christopher Swain

Mermaid Way, Maldon