LITTLE can be done to improve the road safety situation in Tidworth's Station Road, councillors have been told.

There has been considerable disquiet about the condition of the pavement and the parking arrangements in the street but parish council chairman Steve Dagger said he and the clerk had held a site meeting with highway officers which yielded little.

"There is nothing we can do unless it becomes a trip hazard," said Mr Dagger.

"There have been no injury accidents reported.

"But I still think something is going to happen at the southern end of the end."

Councillor Humphrey Jones said: "Can be we ask the police road safety unit to produce a report?

"If we have to wait for an accident then it is too late." The parking arrangements and the pavement in Station Road were upgraded in the late 1990s as part of the Single Regeneration Budget, which saw around £500,000 of government money spent in the town to upgrade the fabric of Tidworth.

Unfortunately the paving material used failed to impress locals and the parking arrangements have been deemed dangerous by many councillors particularly in the area close to the town's only bank.