The speed limit through a Shropshire village is to be cut to 30mph after 61 years of campaigning by residents.

It comes hot on the heels of a decision to lower the speed limit in a nearby village.

Villagers in Eaton Constantine, near Shrewsbury, learned this week that their village would be granted a 30mph speed limit – lowered from the national speed limit of 60mph.

Residents in nearby Leighton found out earlier this year that they would also be getting a speed limit of 30mph in their village.

Leighton and Eaton Constantine Parish Council has now started planning where the limits should be enforced.

Parish clerk Roger Pittaway said he was delighted with the way things were now moving forward.

“After 61 years of waiting we’re delighted. As was said at the meeting last night, ‘seeing is believing’, but this is the most positive that it’s been,” he said.

At the meeting, councillors decided that a “buffer zone” of 40mph should be set up as traffic comes into the villages, with the limit dropping to 30mph through the villages.

Andy Wilde, Shropshire Council’s traffic engineer, said: “A site meeting has been held with a Shropshire Council officer, local member John Everall and the parish council to discuss the speed limit.

“As a result of this it is proposed to reduce the speed limit in Eaton Constantine to 30mph which, subject to statutory consultation, should be in place by the end of this year.”