We live close to a small industrial estate. There's a main road leading from the industrial estate to the A road, but has several sets of traffic lights so there are sometimes queues.
The main road was closed for resurfacing for 2 weeks and the diversion came along our road. 6 weeks later, some of the lorry drivers have obviously decided they prefer our road to the queues on the main road and we're still having between 5 and 10 large lorries coming this way a day. The whole house shakes when they go past. We live on a straight bit so they seem to think it's acceptable to thunder along at 30mph, which is the speed limit, but it is too fast for a lorry that can't stop quickly.
Are there any rules about large lorries using residential roads when there is a more suitable non-residential alternative? Does anyone know how you go about getting the council to reduce the speed limit or think about traffic calming?