A new pedestrian crossing across a busy town centre road has been welcomed by a prominent Marlow businessman.

Shoppers in Marlow High Street currently struggle to cross the road safely between The Causeway and Higginson Park and plans to create a new pedestrian crossing there have now been suggested by the town council.

Bernard Burger, of Burgers Tea Rooms, said he was in favour of a new crossing being put in for the sake of shoppers and customers.

He said: “It is something, as a company, that we have spoken about quite often. It is a very busy road and people do have a problem crossing there because there are three lanes of traffic to cross before you get to the other side.

“I know Wycombe District Council will not want to lose a parking space, particularly in Marlow where we can’t afford to lose any spaces, but we would be very happy to see a crossing there.”

If the plans are given the go-ahead, a parking space will have to be removed in order to provide enough space for a crossing, while parking on the eastern side of The Causeway will “require amending”, according to the South West Chilterns and Marlow Local Area Forum (LAF).

The crossing looks set to cost around £4,834, with half of the funding being provided by the town council and the other half by the LAF.

Cllr Alex Collingwood, Marlow county councillor, confirmed that officers at Transport for Bucks (TfB) are currently in the “feasibility stage” and are exploring different options for a “safe and convenient” crossing.

He said: “A crossing is something I’m keen to see progress but we need to make sure we get the right crossing because the road is so wide there it could actually need a double crossing. They need to work out what is safe for both pedestrians and drivers.

“The public have to write to me and say yes, they want it, or no they don’t. it is a relatively slow part of the road because of the junction so fortunately there haven’t been many accidents there, which is something Transport for Bucks will look at.”

Cllr Collingwood also confirmed that TfB officers are currently carrying out a traffic survey on Seymour Court Road and looking at potentially introducing a pedestrian crossing there.

An appeal for a zebra crossing on the “dangerous” road was reignited in December last year following an incident that almost saw a mother and son hit by a car on their way to school.