Dozens of people have backed calls for a crackdown on speeding cars in a narrow Hove side street.

Campaigners claim drivers race along Marmion Road, Hove, at speeds of up to 50mph.

They say it is used by youngsters from a nearby school, a youth club, a Territorial Army unit and a local park.

Brighton and Hove City Council has spent hundreds of thousands of pounds on traffic calming in nearby Poets Corner.

But residents say council bosses have ignored pleas for safety features in one of the most dangerous roads in the area.

Don Brown, youth work manager at the YMCA in Marmion Road, has asked the council to install traffic calming measures there. He has sent traffic engineers a petition signed by 100 residents who have been affected by the speed of cars using the road.

Mr Brown said: "All of the signatures were collected from the community Talkshop or parents whose children use Stoneham Park.

"Concerns about speeding traffic have been growing and a similar petition from 70 people was sent to the council recently.

"There is now anger that traffic calming has been agreed for School Road and Poets Corner but not for one of the most dangerous roads in the area."

He said the road had West Hove Junior and Infants School at its western end as well as the YMCA centre. The centre is used every night for clubs and activities for youngsters.

Parents use the road to drop off young children at the Young Sussex Nursery and the TA Hall is shared by Army Cadets and Sea Cadets.

Mr Brown said Stoneham Park was used by families and children and there were always cars and lorries obscuring its two entrances.

He said: "There have been regular incidents of parked cars on both sides of the road being damaged by speeding vehicles.

"Cars are regularly speeding along this road at 50mph and we feel the case for traffic calming is overwhelming."

He said residents felt the introduction of 30mph speed signs and road bumps would help solve the problem. Better visibility could also be provided by introducing no parking zones near both entrances to the park.

A council spokeswoman said until now traffic calming schemes had only been considered on an area basis.

She said: "For the first time next year money will be available for what we call linear schemes, which are basically single roads. Marmion Road will be eligible for consideration along with other roads in the city.

"There is a strict points system for traffic calming schemes and each road will receive money for its scheme when it reaches the top of the list. We try to do four or five a year.

"Things like the number of schools, playgroups, clubs and parks are taken into consideration along with the number of fatal or serious injury accidents.

"Work on assessing the points which apply to each scheme will begin soon after Christmas and Marmion Road will be included in that process."