Concerns for safety of unlit Telford road without pavement

Lightmoor Road is used to access the A4169

Safety concerns have been raised over an unlit Shropshire road which has no pavement.

Cars from Little Dawley and Doseley use Lightmoor Road to access the A4169 but more pedestrians are using it due to an increase in houses in the area.

In a parish council meeting last week it was said by Telford and Wrekin Council that there was not enough room to add a footpath.

But resident Greg Corbett said the road was an "accident waiting to happen".

He said the nearest secondary school was Madeley Academy and children aged between 11 and 18 walked along the road and then through the adjacent woods or along a grass verge.

Another resident said the children often had to jump into the grass verge due to the speed at which cars travelled.

Chris Pearson from Telford and Wrekin Council said he was looking into further safety measures on Lightmoor Road and he had met with councillors to discuss the problem.

But he added: "There is simply not enough room for a footpath and to maintain two lanes of traffic.

"The carriageway takes up pretty much all the highway land."

He said that additional street lights would be "unlikely".

Many residents said they felt that this issue should have been sorted before a housing development of 53 affordable homes was built in the area.

'Extremely hazardous'

"It's extremely hazardous, somebody is going to get killed," one resident said.

Councillor Kate Barnes raised an issue of children crossing the bypass at the bottom of Lightmoor Road.

She asked whether an underpass was out of the question.

Mr Pearson said it would cost £1m to build and suggested use could be made of an existing underpass.

He added that the situation was being looked at and urged people to contact him with any comments.