I want Northumberland County Council to stand up and listen to us residents once and for all.

Allendale Road is unsafe and is a death trap waiting to happen. We have a serious issue with speeding drivers, poor road conditions, poor path conditions and a new footfall of 1800 children now needing to use these paths to access the NEW HMS and QEH site that you have just built. The safety aspect of the road has been ignored for many years. I have tried for years as have many other residents and it has fell on deaf ears.

I feel let down that the safety on this road has been overlooked for many years and residents concerns have been pushed aside. I do not want to wait to see a child or adult killed on this road. I want something to be done now.

I request in the first instance speed monitoring be put on intervals along Allendale Road from above Southlands down to the Fox Pub. In light of the findings which I’m sure will prove astounding to see what an issue there is. I ask for traffic calming measures put in place including some form of path barrier to safeguard children, regular path clearing and thorn trimming to stop pedestrians having to step on the road to avoid these.

You have build an amazing school, now safeguard the children that are going there and make the pathways and roads around the school a safe place for them to walk wether it is day or night.

It is not just children that use the road and we also have to take into account dog walkers and pedestrians that use the paths regularly during the dark. Wide vehicles passing swerve towards the path and could easily clip someone on the path. This just is not safe. I am petrified.

I am a resident and I have a driveway that has a blind exit and that’s bad enough, the worries about that have been ignored even though it has been stated by highways it could easily cause a serious accident by a resident having to edge out into the carriageway blindly. I live with that fear every day as do my neighbours however I also don’t want to worry about my children going to school safe. 
Start listening, start safeguarding our children.