A new school on the outskirts of Crewe is desperately needed but if children can't access it safely it shouldn't be built there, a councillor said.

Cllr Janet Clowes (Wybunbury, Conservative), was speaking about proposals to build a new primary school at Basford East.

Cheshire East's children and families committee is due to discuss the recent consultation for the school at its meeting next month.

But at the end of Monday's (January 19) meeting Cllr Clowes, who was standing in for an absent committee member so will not be present next month, raised concerns about highways dangers for children getting to the proposed school.

"Can I just ask when you discuss that, you actually, in some detail, question how children are actually going to cross the road," she asked the committee.

Cllr Janet Clowes (Wybunbury, Conservative), was speaking about proposals to build a new primary school at Basford East (Photo: CEC).

"You've got the David Whitby Way, you've got one roundabout off which the school and a housing estate behind lies.

"On the other side of the roundabout, you've got other housing developments, but you've also now got multiple warehousing behind the housing between David Whitby Way and the railway.

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"You've also got large strategic planning applications in for further warehousing, and for a Marks and Spencer superstore, and for the new police headquarters, which is going to have all sorts of blue lights, all coming off this tiny roundabout and these two small access roads off the David Whitby Way."

She continued: "I am deeply concerned. The parish council are deeply concerned, I'm sure they put it into the consultation.

"But if we can't get the children there safely, then we shouldn't be building a school there."

Cllr Clowes told the committee the school is desperately needed and is supported by the parish council and ward councillors.

"We very much want it there, but we are desperately worried about how they're going to cross the road," she said.

Speaking after the meeting, Cllr Clowes told the Local Democracy Reporting Service: "Weston and Crewe Green Parish Council are calling for some kind of safe crossing for children and pedestrians."

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