ROAD safety will be tackled in Davenham in a project to investigate how motorists and cyclists use the village.

Davenham Parish Council plans to look at traffic flow and parking in the village later this year and will include cycling on its remit after members raised concerns at the latest meeting.

Clr Gareth Peel said: "Cyclists fly down London Road, cut through the village garden and go the wrong way up Hartford Road."

Clr Arthur Wood added his concerns about people riding bikes on pavements.

"I've had a few narrow squeaks myself," he said.

"One day I came out of my gate, looked both ways because I didn't know which way I wanted to walk, and there was this bike.

"If they're sensible and give way to pedestrians it would be OK but they don't and often they don't have a bell or any warning device."

Clr David Ravenscroft admitted that he had cycled on pavements and the wrong way along Hartford Road.

"Guilty - I'd rather that than be hit by a bus or a motorist," he said.

Clr Peel said: "We should be doing something to make the roads safer so we're not encouraging cycling on the footpaths, but it's not something we can solve in an evening."

Clr Katie Mattinson, vice chairman of Davenham Parish Council, said: "It's something we can look at as part of a wider traffic flow and parking project we will look at later this year."

The council is also talking to police about how the village's new 20mph limit can be highlighted, monitored and enforced.