A PROPOSED one-way system for supermarket traffic has hit widespread objections amid fears it could create a hazard for pedestrians.

Plans for the new Quality Fare supermarket in Bedale were approved earlier this year on condition that suitable traffic arrangements could be introduced.

But a one-way system along Wycar, put forward by North Yorkshire County Council, has run into opposition from residents, who claim it will see a quiet part of the town clogged up with cars and delivery wagons.

Susan Gilbertson, of Wycar, said the increased traffic would make an already dangerous junction of Firby Road, Masham Road and Wycar, used by children to get to school, even worse.

She said: "The roads identified for extra use are small narrow lanes with no safe footpath for pedestrians and are not suitable for the amount of traffic this system will produce."

And Steve Porter, of The Wynd, said: "The corner at the bottom of Firby Road is a very busy one and under their proposal all the traffic from the supermarket will come out on to that corner.

"All the children have to go that way to school and this is going to make it very dangerous for them."

Hambleton District Council head of development control Maurice Cann said planning permission for the 11,300sq ft store had been granted on condition the traffic proposals were considered suitable.

He said if the county council rejected the traffic arrangements a new application for planning permission would have to be submitted.

Eddie Hayward, county council area traffic manager, said a notice detailing the proposed changes had been issued.

But the number of objections meant a meeting of county councillors, expected to take place in the autumn, would now decide whether this would go ahead or not.