PLANS for fencing to calm traffic at an accident black spot on the edge of Malvern were due to go before councillors this week.

County councillor John Raine is calling for the fencing to be installed alongside the B4503 Leigh Sinton Road at Lower Interfields, the scene of several high-speed crashes in recent years.

The road is subject to a 40mph speed limit, and in attempt to enforce the limit, the county council has installed a vehicle activated sign to warn speeding drivers and has also painted 40mph roundels on the road surface.

In addition, it has also installed illuminated verge marker post at the bed where the crashes have happened.

Cllr Raine said: "At the last site meeting with highways engineers, residents expressed the desire to have a set of white paling fences on the verge at the entrance to and exit from the settlement, as at Welland, to draw attention to drivers that they are entering/leaving a residential zone.

"One of the residents has kindly offered to pay for such an installation, but I understand it is the relevant town council that needs to give permission."

Cllr Raine's request is due to be considered by Malvern Town Council's operations committee at its meeting on Thursday evening.

Cllr Raine has been working with Lower Interfields residents for the last three years on slowing down traffic on this road.

Resident David Barrie said: "John has been working extremely hard to deal with this problems. It's because of him that the vehicle-activated sign (VAS), the roundels and the marker posts have been installed.

"But the problem has not gone way. The VAS records between 7,000 and 7,500 speeding drivers each week, and that's just in the direction going towards Leigh Sinton."

In November 2014, a speeding driver left the road and damaged three cars belonging to Mr Barrie's family, and a year later, another car hit a neighbour's house, causing extensive damage.

In August 2015, a car narrowly missed one of Mr Barrie's neighbours who was coming out of their driveway and collided with a tree. A year earlier, another crash demolished one of the 40mph road signs on a nearby verge.