The speed limit could soon be cut to 30 miles per hour on Basingstoke Road in Shinfield in a move slammed as 'well overdue'.

Wokingham Borough councillor Chris Johnson, who represents Shinfield South, said the decision to cut the speed limit from 40 miles an hour was “10 years overdue,” with new housing estates along Basingstoke Road bringing more pedestrians.

He said: “We have a lot of roads that have now got housing estates on either side. We’ve got more and more junctions, we’ve got pedestrian traffic wanting to cross those roads.

“We’ve got facilities on both sides of roads where we’re going to get children crossing to go to school etc. And they are roads that are still 40 miles an hour where we’ve been pressing for a 30 miles an hour limit.

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“An example is Basingstoke Road through Three Mile Cross, Spencer’s Wood etc. It’s ten years overdue to be dropped to a 30 miles an hour limit because of various developers causing it to be put back.”

But Matt Gould, a council highways officer, told him that the new speed limit had been given the “green light” and a Traffic Regulation Order bringing it into effect will soon be made.

He said: “The speed limits you’re referring to in Shinfield, around Three Mile Cross, Basingstoke Road etc – they have been given the green light for 30 miles an hour and the TRO will be made in approximately four weeks’ time.”