A REQUEST to cut the speed limit on a local road is to remain the same.

The section of the B4234 through Walford south of Ross-on-Wye, will not be cut from 40 to 30mph as the parish council had sought.

Herefordshire Council separately confirmed it does not have any plans for the introduction of area-wide 20mph zones, which is common in neighbouring Monmouthshire, and that the local authority does not support this as a policy going forward.

This was in an update to a motion passed in 2020 urging the officials to consider bringing in such area-wide limits across Herefordshire’s towns and major villages.

But the council now says that its highest concern remains on high-speed rural roads where it has the highest incidence of casualties.