Whitegate residents say they're afraid to let children walk to local playground due to lack of a footpath

Monday, 12 April 2021 12:32

People living near Glebe Manor outside the village had been told work on a 500 yard section of path approaching the main Whitegate Road would begin around now.

However residents say the Council has contacted them to say the project will not be proceeding.

The residents committee say the road is dangerous and are calling for the compulsory purchase of the ditch beside the road so a path can be built without delay.

Speaking to RedFM News, local resident Mark Lombard describes the issue:

"It's treacherous actually in the car, never mind if you're walking because the junction itself is sort of a bottleneck so get so it gets so tight towards the end, just actually where the sight lines are really bad. So even if two cars or even a car and sometimes there's farm machinery or bigger trucks, like they'd nearly have to stop to really just crawl past each other. If you add in a child going to school there or, you know, some of the kids are a little bit older now and they go down maybe to the village on their bikes. It's just an accident waiting to happen."