RESIDENTS of Boundary Lane continue to campaign for speed reduction measures after the latest incident on their street.

Concerns were once again raised about the road in Saltney after a resident was left in disbelief after a car went through the front of her home.

Amy-Leigh Scott, 28, said she and her partner had been visiting friends and were on the way home when they received a call about the incident.

On Sunday, June 14, a spokesman for the Cheshire Fire and Rescue Service said: " Fire crews responded to deal with a road traffic collision in the early hours of the morning.

“It involved two saloon cars, and a further car parked in front of a terraced house. The impact had pushed the parked car into the wall of the house.”

Councillor Veronica Gay, representative for Saltney’s Stonebridge ward, said: “I do have a lot of concerns about the road and the delay in doing something about it. Two properties have been damaged within months – this is serious.

“People have been saying for so long that the roads here are too fast. This is a little town with narrow streets and people do go so fast.

“We have kids playing in the street and older people walking on narrow pavements and they are being subjected to this.”

Cllr Gay said she lives on Sandy Lane which she said is “like a rat-run” being “an exceptionally wide and straight road” which “attracts speeding”.

She continued: “A petition was put into Flintshire Council in January 2019. We are now in June 2020 and nothing has happened.

“It feels almost like this has been put on the back burner and forgotten about. The latest excuse is COVID-19, but we all know meetings can go ahead remotely and emails can still be sent.”

A new petition has been launched - addressed to both Flintshire and Cheshire West and Chester Councils - calling on the authorities who share ownership of Boundary Lane to make the road safer after a string of incidents.

To date, more than 400 people have signed the digital plea from concerned citizens of Saltney.

Cllr Gay says she has now appealed to Chester MP Chris Matheson and says she is aware this issue was also raised with Alyn and Deeside MP Mark Tami last year.

A spokesman for Flintshire Council said: “Following the receipt of a petition and by the request of both the representing local members and Saltney Town Council, Flintshire County Council was asked to investigate and develop potential scheme options to address alleged instances of speeding within Saltney with a view to introduce 20mph mandatory speed limits within the main residential area.

"In February 2019, a Working Group consisting of representing local members, Saltney Town Council and Flintshire County Council officers was formed, and a number of traffic surveys were undertaken at agreed locations in the town which enabled the council to understand and evidence current driving behaviour within the area."

The council spokesman says that the results of the surveys confirmed "the vast majority of motorists are driving in accordance with the existing 30mph speed limit" saying that "only one of the 12 locations investigated displayed average speed data above the threshold required for police prosecution".

The spokesman continued: "Although the matter of speeding is a criminal offence and can, therefore, only be enforced by North Wales Police, council officers developed a number of scheme proposals which were presented to the town council in February of this year.

"As with the implementation of all road safety schemes within the county, all potential schemes are scored, ranked and assessed in accordance with Flintshire County Council’s Road Safety Scheme Matrix, with the highest scoring schemes being prioritised for bids for Welsh Government funding each financial year. Whilst the proposed schemes for Saltney did not score sufficiently to be prioritised for funding in this financial year, a number of interim safety options have been identified for which a programme of works is currently under way on order to progress those measures over the coming months"

MP's Mark Tami and Chris Matheson were also approached for comment.