EAST Looe’s new street marshals have started their first week of assisting visitors and monitoring the traffic flow into the town centre.

Vehicles are permitted into Fore Street and the harbour area of Looe for access only, and while pedestrianisation had been one suggestion on the cards to help deal with social distancing, traders who formed a Business Forum were against the idea, largely because of the difficulty that would arise in obtaining deliveries.

The marhsals, who’ve been employed by the Town Council, will be urging pedestrians to keep left and encouraging motorists to avoid entering the town centre unless necessary. They’ll be there from 11am - 5pm seven days a week.

Meanwhile, cones have been set out along a ’no waiting, no loading’ stretch of Fore Street to help prevent illegal parking.

Residents say that Looe has got much busier since the start of the school holidays and that not everyone has been sticking to the ’keep left’ rule in the town centre.

A spokesperson for the Town Council said: ’The marshals are doing an amazing job. It is really busy but the times when they are working demonstrate a significant reduction in traffic.

’The public are responding brilliantly and our marshals have had much praise from pedestrians.’