Residents are calling for action to solve traffic “chaos” caused by lorries struggling to make it up a slippery hill.

They say they are kept up at night by screeching tyres and reversing alarms as stranded HGVs retreat back down for another run-up, and fear there will be a serious accident.

However, pleas for Kent County Council (KCC) Highways to lay down an anti-skid surface on the steep incline have fallen on deaf ears.

The problems have been happening since traffic lights were installed at the foot of two hills, at the junction of Willington Street and Deringwood Drive in Maidstone in August last year.

They were put in by housebuilder Bellway as one of the mitigation measures for its new estate of 421 homes at Parsonage Place in Otham.

KCC had opposed the lights initially, amid

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