QUESTIONS are being asked over a missing Wellington footpath and cycleway which has left residents of a new housing estate risking life and limb on a dangerous road into town.

Families living on the controversial Heritage Mills estate and without access to a car must walk and cycle along Milverton Road, which does not have pavements.

Part of the planning permission for the housing development in Tonedale was for a path to be built across fields at the rear of the estate to connect to Crosslands to keep people safe from traffic.

But although the first residents moved in about 16 months ago the footpath and cycleway still have not been built.

Town councillor John Thorne, who is also one of Wellington’s two county councillors, called the situation ‘another shocking example of the planning department letting down Wellington’.

Cllr Thorne has asked planning officers for an explanation as to why housebuilder Strongvox has not yet delivered the footpath and cycleway which it included in its plans when applying for consent to build the 80-plus homes.

For the full story, see this week’s Wellington Weekly News.