WORRIED parents have won a promise of action over claims construction lorries are putting their children's lives at risk.

Dane Housing is building homes off Lowe Avenue in Congleton, work due to finish by April or May next year.

The scheme involves lorries using New Street to get to the building site, taking them past Daven Primary School.

Angry Daven parents claim the trucks cause congestion at school leaving time, and also create danger for children coming out of school.

Parents have spoken to the lorry drivers about their fears, and are calling for trucks to stop delivering between 3pm and 3.30pm.

Their plea was answered this week by Dane Housing, which stated it would remind the contractors of an agreement not to deliver to the building site at school dropping off or collecting times.

Tracy Tagell, from Bankhouse Drive, has two daughters at Daven, and said the problem with deliveries at dropping off time had got worse in the last month.

"Many parents are concerned, you are talking about big HGVs, and it's very dangerous because children run out of the school gates," she said.

Fellow parent George Hammond, from Dale Crescent, who has two children at Daven, also expressed his concern that a child could get knocked down by one of the trucks.

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