There are fears schoolchildren and train users will be put in danger by lorries reversing down a narrow country lane to access a new housing development. The small track, off Dover Road in Sandwich, is typically only used by farm vehicles or people on their way to the town’s railway station, as a way of reaching platform 2 without using a footbridge. But over the past two months, trucks have been reversing down the lane – owned by Network Rail – in order to reach a construction site. Eight homes are being built on the land, but as the plot is so small, the lorries cannot turn around at the end…
