Bethlehem residents are looking forward to peace and quiet on their roads after Tauranga City Council backed residents' submission to ban trucks from certain roads in the Tauranga suburb.

Councillors voted to impose heavy vehicle restrictions on Beaumaris Boulevard and Bethlehem Heights during Tuesday's Strategy and Policy Committee meeting.

The vote was in response to submissions from several Bethlehem residents who say they are affected by the noise of heavy vehicles using the road.

Beaumaris Boulevard and Bethlehem Heights are increasingly being used as a through-road by heavy vehicles.

The residents wish for heavy vehicle restrictions the same as those on Sterling Gate Drive, Castlewold Drive and Cambridge Road was granted by councillors.

Residents Stuart and Bev Rendall submitted on City Council's Draft Traffic and Parking Bylaw 2012 asking for restrictions to be imposed.

'It is not just the noise. Every time a truck goes passed the whole house shakes with vibrations and cracks are beginning to appear in our walls,” says Stuart in his submission.

Since the Beaumaris Boulevard connection with Waihi Road was opened in August 2010, the Rendalls say their quality of life has deteriorated to an unacceptable level due to logging trucks, car transporters, haulage truck and trailers and concrete mixers using the road.

He also complained about non-residents using the streets to bypass peak hour traffic tail-backs at Bethlehem, and teenagers using the streets at night as a race track.

The Rendalls are among several Bethlehem residents who voiced similar concerns.