A CAMPAIGN by parents and governors to stop cars from speeding past a town primary school is set to be a success.

People in Easingwold have been pressing for the past year to have traffic calming and a 20mph limit enforced outside Easingwold Primary School, in Thirsk Road.

A petition with nearly 350 signatures, including those of every governor and the headteacher, was handed to North Yorkshire County Council. The campaign has also won the support of Vale of York MP Anne McIntosh.

The county council has electronically monitored traffic driving past the school over the space of a week.

They found that two-thirds of all vehicles were exceeding the 30mph speed limit, more than a third of all drivers were travelling faster than 35mph and on average, six drivers every day were going faster than 70mph.

On Monday, councillors on the Hambleton area committee will be asked to approve a scheme that will see a 20mph limit introduced on the road, as well as two sets of speed cushions and speed tables.

Gerard Tubb, chairman of the Easingwold 20 zone campaign committee, said he was pleased that the scheme was finally moving forward.

He said: "The road is horrible. It is the old A19 before Easingwold got a bypass and it is a straight, wide piece of road with great big lampposts.

"It gives the impression that it is a major, fast piece of road and cars just accelerate as they head out of Easingwold."

Mike Moore, corporate director of environmental services at North Yorkshire, County Council, said: "A combination of cushions and tables would be extremely effective at this location in achieving the required reduction in traffic speeds, while at the same time minimising the noise disruption to adjacent residents and the discomfort of bus passengers."

He has recommended that councillors give officers the go-ahead to start detailed design work with the aim of implementing the scheme as soon as possible in this financial year.

The committee meets at 2pm on Monday in Hutton Rudby Village Hall.