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<\/p>\nSUFFERING locals have described the relentless din from traffic thundering along a motorway which even makes their homes vibrate.<\/p>\n
Residents of a Kent cul-de-sac say life is being made a misery by cars and lorries roaring along the M20, one of Britain's busiest motorways.<\/p>\n
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The people living in Ashford told how sound levels in some back gardens have soared past recommended safety levels of 70 decibels.<\/p>\n
The major highway was turned from the dual carriageway A20 into the M20 motorway in 1981 – but locals say it's now that congestion is causing new heights of noise.<\/p>\n
Muhammad Kashref said he was unaware about the extent of the disruption when moving in almost 15 years ago.<\/p>\n
He said: "We have one room at the back and in the night we can\u2019t sleep if we don\u2019t close the windows.<\/p>\n
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"It was my first buy so I didn\u2019t have a clue.<\/p>\n
"The noise and dust is a problem. My wife has to clean our windows everyday \u2013 and the dust comes indoors as well.<\/p>\n
"We can feel the vibration too."<\/p>\n
Nige Wilson, 80, has been living nearby for the past 43 years.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n He said: "When we came here, there wasn\u2019t a motorway, it was dual carriageway – so when they built the motorway, it was a ripple effect."<\/p>\n He recalled how authorities initially tried to curb disruption by laying porous asphalt on the motorway to reduce noise.<\/p>\n Signs then suggested "Noise reduced", he says – but recent years appear to have upped the volume.<\/p>\n He said: "The authorities were going to put up a noise barrier and they didn\u2019t – they said because you\u2019re only two per cent of the population that is affected and they got the money to spend.<\/p>\n "We\u2019ve all complained."<\/p>\n Neighbour Margaret Feakins, 80, says she has raised concerns in vain about the noise.<\/p>\n She said: "As long as complainers are not dying, they don\u2019t do anything."<\/p>\n She told how next-door neighbours put up a fence around their front garden because the M20 noise had become so unbearable.<\/p>\n Her husband Kenneth, also 80, said: "It's not so much the cars, it's the lorries."<\/p>\n More recent arrivals have also raised complaints.<\/p>\n Dana, 27, came to Ashford three years ago, and described her new home so close to the motorway as "fine when you are in the house" – but added: "When you go into the garden, it's just horrendous."<\/p>\n Mari Rauks, 51, accepted the din as a "necessary evil" for the convenience of getting to work in nearby Maidstone.<\/p>\n She said: "When we chose this house, we already knew that there's going to be there – it has its plus side as it's really easy to get to places.<\/p>\n "I think it's a good thing we have trees behind it and is that it's actually down."<\/p>\n Kent County Council said they had no involvement and it was National Highways' responsibility.<\/p>\n The Sun Online has also approached National Highways, which looks after motorways and major A roads, for comment.<\/p>\n The differing opinions come after homeowners beside what's been dubbed Britain's busiest road insisted Greater Manchester's M62 was making their lives a misery.<\/p>\n That same\u00a0M62 features houses\u00a0including Quirky Stott Hall Farm, an 18th century farmhouse between two motorway lanes near Huddersfield\u00a0in\u00a0West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n There have also been complaints about living close to motorways by people in Rowley Regis\u00a0in the\u00a0West Midlands.<\/p>\n Traffic nearby zooms along the M5 into and out of\u00a0England's second city\u00a0Birmingham.<\/p>\n Concerns have also been raised by a dad living beneath the M4 in Port Talbot,\u00a0Wales\u00a0– although his wife disagrees.<\/p>\n And another family local to the same stretch say they find the sound soothing.<\/p>\n![](\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/van_hit_GIF.gif?strip=all&w=300&h=192&crop=1\"\/)
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