A REVIEW is being carried out to pinpoint roads in Swindon which need traffic calming.

Councillors will be discussing 53 possible road safety schemes, which would cost more than £1 million to install, at a cabinet meeting on Wednesday.

Officers are recommending that nine areas are seriously looked at to see what should be done.

One of these is Moredon Road, at the junction of Bourne Road and Wickdown Avenue.

This junction has seen 29 accidents in the last three years and is one of the town's blackspots.

This year the council has received 53 requests from different areas in the borough for traffic calming areas and it has made a study of each one so that they can be prioritised.

Peter Ellershaw, the director of environmental services, said: "In the course of the year the council receives many requests for action in the field of traffic calming.

"In order to ensure that all these requests are considered equally all requests are collected together in a single annual review.

"The main criteria on which the selection of a scheme is based is its three year personal injury record.

"This year a total of 53 sites have been reviewed. The cost of implementing all of the schemes which have been requested would be in excess of £1 million."

The traffic management sites which officers recommend should be seriously looked at are:

Moredon Road at the junction of Bourne Road and Wickdown Avenue.

Swindon Road, Lower Stratton Grange Drive to Hobley Drive.

Liden Drive.

Covingham Drive, together with Merlin Way and Kingfisher Drive.

Cheney Manor Industrial Estate Road.

Thames Avenue, Westfield Way junction, Haydon Wick.

Eldene Drive.

High Street, Highworth.

South Marston, which will be funded by South Marston Parish Council.