A new traffic-calming scheme is being launched in a village blighted by Bradford commuters.

Councillors are planning to install speed bumps and a mini-roundabout to deter rush-hour traffic from using East Bierley as a rat-run.

Councillor Robert Light (Con, Birstall and Birkenshaw) said the development aimed to stop motorists using the village to avoid queues along Wakefield Road.

He said: "Through consulting with all of the village we have decided to introduce a traffic-calming scheme to prevent the volume of traffic and slow down the speed of traffic in East Bierley.

"The problem is caused by Wakefield Road into Bradford. You get a lot of congestion, particularly around Tong Street Cemetery, so traffic uses East Bierley instead.

"There have been a lot of shunts along there but nothing that would show up on statistics and normally you would have to have three or four deaths on a road before the Council starts taking it seriously.

"But we have been able to get access to funding through the area committee."

Now Kirklees Council wants to hear residents' views on what they would like to see the scheme include.

Highways bosses want to install speed bumps along South View Road and Raikes Lane and introduce a mini-roundabout at the junction of Raikes Lane and Cliff Hollins Lane.

The plan also includes improvements to the pavement outside East Bierley Primary School in South View Road.

Coun Elizabeth Smaje, the chairman of the Birstall and Birkenshaw Area Committee, said the design for the scheme would not be finalised until East Bierley residents had been consulted.

A Kirklees Council spokesman said officers could not say how much the scheme would cost until the final plan is approved.

The scheme is part of the Birstall and Birkenshaw Area Committee's community action plan which is set to be approved by Kirklees Council's Devolution Advisory Committee at a meeting tomorrow.

The plan will then go to the Council's full cabinet meeting for approval.

The action plan was put together by the Birstall and Birkenshaw Area Committee after consultation with residents.