Schools celebrate as pedestrian crossing gets go ahead

Buckinghamshire County Council has agreed to install a zebra crossing and two belisha beacons to be paid for by developer St James who last week won planning permission to build 49 new houses in Beaconsfield.
Kate Ing, a community governor at The Beaconsfield School and a mother of three children who have to cross Station Road to get to Butlers Court Primary, said: "This is absolutely fantastic news. An incredible number of children have to cross that road. There are children who cross it in wheelchairs. We've been campaigning for this for years."
Mrs Ing, who helped compile the Butlers Court School travel plan, said schools had been campaigning for a crossing for years, and that the need had become even more acute since a lolly pop lady left and could not be replaced two years ago.
Head teacher at The Beaconsfield School Nigel Dudding welcomed the news and said "there is always a huge concern over the safety of young people on our crowded roads."
The crossing is also used by hundreds of pupils who attend Beaconsfield High School,
A school pupil of 14 was hit by a car at the Station Road junction with Wattleton Road in January this year.
Chris Schwier, transport localities team leader at BCC, said the £25,000 pedestrian crossing would be a zebra crossing with two belisha beacons and that design work would start "once we've got the money." He added: "we would expect it to be done this financial year." He could not give a precise location.
Developer St James must pay for the crossing as a condition of permission for the development at Redwood Place approved by South Bucks District Council on November 18.