A DETAILED traffic-calming plan for a Bewdley estate under siege from "rat-running" drivers is on the way.

Proposals were put to residents of Wribbenhall's Queensway estate at a public consultation held by Worcestershire County Council in March.

But campaigners who helped scupper controversial plans for humps and bumps on the other side of the town, by organising the West Midlands' first ever parish poll, have demanded they have a say on the scheme.

The historic vote, forced by 27 residents quoting a little-known rule at Bewdley Town Council's annual meeting, saw 80 per cent of those turning up at the ballot boxes give the thumbs-down to 53 measures in streets around Cleobury Road, with 86 per cent wanting more "targeted" measures.

The county council was forced to scrap the £223,000 plan - and it emerged at a meeting of Wyre Forest Highways Partnership that a drastically-reduced scheme featuring just three pelican crossings was now on the table.

Rob White, a Wribbenhall district councillor, told officers that residents had been asking how the Queensway scheme was progressing.

"I want something positive to go back to them with," he said.

Stuart Reynolds, manager of the partnership, told him the public response was in favour of the plan and their comments had been noted. A detailed scheme was "nearing completion," he added.

Voters from across the town, including Wribbenhall, had said they wanted future schemes to be closely targeted on danger points as part of the parish poll - and organisers want to make sure this is what happens.

"There exists a Bewdley traffic-calming committee," said Mr Baillie, Bewdley Mayor and a Highways Partnership Forum county council representative.

Wribbenhall residents were consulted on the plan - which was launched in response to fears from parents at Wribbenhall First School in Shaw Hedge Road over speeding cars and would see humps and chicanes installed, as well as a 20mph zone outside the school - in March.