VILLAGERS near York are campaigning for more anti-speeding measures near their homes.

People living in Full Sutton have set up a petition asking for speed limits on the three routes leading into the village to be reduced from 60mph to 40mph and for new signs warning drivers they are travelling too fast to be installed.

The group also wants improved signs at a junction in the village used by motorists travelling to and from York and Stamford Bridge. The issue will be discussed by East Riding of Yorkshire Council (ERYC) next week.

Full Sutton and Skirpenbeck Parish Council has submitted a 40-name petition backing action on speeding in the area. ERYC is set to approve some new signs and add the request for a reactive sign near Full Sutton Prison to a list of sites for consideration.

But it has also said cutting the speed limit on the approach to the village to 40mph is “not considered appropriate” because there are no homes alongside the stretches of road outside Full Sutton.

Nigel Leighton, the council’s director of environmental and neighbourhood services, said in a report which will go before next week’s meeting: “Full Sutton has a good safety record, with no traffic accidents occurring in the village in the previous three years.

“Concerns had been expressed about motorists overshooting the junction [on the main road at Hatkill Lane] due to poor signing, but this was not apparent.”

He said it had been suggested that the prison contribute to the provision of speed reactive signs, as it had a submitted a recent planning application.

But Mr Leighton said: “The application is for minor off-street works and would have no effect on use of the highway, so there is no reason to seek such a contribution.”

However, he said speed surveys in the village had shown the 30mph speed limit was being broken by some drivers and police had been informed. ERYC’s environment and regeneration overview and scrutiny committee will consider the issue next week.

The measures, if approved, will see improved direction signs fitted at the junction and high-visibility signs replacing existing 30mph markers on Moor Lane and Hatkill Lane.