An absence of pedestrian walkways immediately outside the school gate means that the youngest members of the community are very vulnerable to traffic when they arrive to start or depart from school. 

Local residents also face danger from impatient motorists using the horse shoe shaped route as a rat run to avoid the traffic calming measures on nearby Ashgrove.  

Joanne Davis, who drew up a petition signed by over 50 parents and residents to present to Banes council asking for action, said: "Parents taking their children to the nursery school have to hold on to their children for dear life when they walk along the pavementless road each morning with cars racing past them". 

Cllr Bevan added: "The road layout here was originally planned completely differently, with bollards built in at the bottom of Eckweek Road to stop precisely the sort of risky behaviour we are seeing now. At the very least I would like to see an enforced 20 mph, well signed speed limit along this road, with appropriate road side signs on the approach to the nursery school in both directions." 

Both Joanne and Cllr Bevan have added their names to the list of volunteers for the community speed watch teams being set up by local neighbourhood police. Their training begins soon and they have pledged this area as a priority on their list of locations where motorists should be monitored.