NEW safety features are finally being installed around Primrose Hill Community Primary School after a campaign from angry mums.

The walk to the Phoebe Street school and children’s centre will now be much safer with a 20mph speed limit, speed cushions and raised crossing points, new street lighting and tactile paving to assist the visually impaired.

There was anger when the school was opened in September 2007, with no such features in place.

But Salford City Council and partners LPC Living have invested thousands as part of their Safer Routes to School scheme to make Phoebe Street and its surrounding routes more pedestrian friendly, with work due for completion at the end of July.

Jackie Aspey, 35, of Taylorson Street, Ordsall, who has an eight-year-old son at the school and played a role in getting the new safety measures put in place, said: "It should have been a priority from the start, but I’m glad things are coming along and that the council is actually doing something.

"There have been changes but there’s more that they could do."

The work is to be completed alongside continuing growth in Ordsall, driven by the Heart of Ordsall Development Framework, a joint initiative between Salford City Council and LPC Living.

It has already seen 500 homes and a new primary school and children’s centre with plans for a new shopping centre in the pipeline.

Councillor John Warmisham, Salford City Council’s lead member for children’s services, said: "Making the roads safer was a key priority in the Heart of Ordsall Development Framework, and the work underway at Primrose Hill Community Primary School and Children’s Centre will improve road safety and encourage people who had previously used cars to walk or cycle to school."

Jonathan Drake, marketing director from LPC Living, added: "The pedestrian areas will make the roads surrounding the school much safer for those using the school and the whole community."