A concerned mum is petitioning for traffic-calming measures outside her children's school.

Jane Whitworth fears there will be an accident outside Cottingley Village Primary School which is on the corner of two busy roads.

Morris Homes (North) Ltd wants to build almost 100 homes off Cottingley Moor Road, opposite the school, and as part of the application planners require the developers to implement traffic-calming measures.

But Mrs Whitworth said something needs to be done now.

"It could be years before this materialises and in the meantime there are children as young as three trying to cross an extremely busy road," said Mrs Whitworth, 34.

"They drive like idiots down there and have no concern for parents and children trying to cross the road."

Mrs Whitworth, whose three children Emma, 11, Marc, eight, and three-year-old Rebecca are pupils at the school, said she will be rallying support from parents in the next couple of weeks.

Cottingley Village Primary deputy head teacher Pam Allen said the school was constantly in touch with Bradford Council's highways department to see what improvements could be made.

"We would welcome any traffic-calming measures included in the planning application," she said.

"So many people use the road as a route to work to get to different areas of Bradford and all the time we are fearful that there will be an accident."

Among conditions of outline planning permission, granted last year for the housing development, were requirements to install a puffin crossing and a path through the estate to Main Street. "Both of these would be ideal as the children live in the village have to walk up Bradford Old Road where the pavements are very narrow," said Mrs Allen. "But where will the children on this new estate go to school? We are full to capacity."

A Council planning spokesman said talks will be held with the developers to see what measures could be included.

Morris Homes, based in Merseyside, is proposing to build 39 four-bedroom detached houses, 11 three-bedroom detached houses and 44 three-storey mews on land stretching back from Cottingley Moor Road and across the beck.

A company spokesman said: "Any traffic-calming measures will be dictated to us during the process of the planning application."

Anyone who wants to comment on the plans should write to the planning unit at Shipley Town Hall by November 16.