AS THE mornings grow colder, parents at Beaconside Primary School in Rubery face increased difficulty in getting their children to school.
Why? Bromsgrove Council considers Hazel Road - the steep hill on which the school resides - to be a secondary gritting route, despite several years of complaints. The area is almost never gritted.
This morning, for example, we had a visible blanket of ice all the way up the hill. I witnessed three parents who fell (including a mother with a buggy) and two very close calls involving cars. One 4x4 nearly rolled over, and another car skidded into the kerb. We had to keep the children well away from the road.
We have a grit box outside the school and the staff do their best with it, but it shouldn’t be their concern, and it’s not enough to keep everyone safe.
Rhiannon Morgan Rubery
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