Requests for a pavement on a road labelled a “disaster waiting to happen” have been denied. Southwell Town Council’s planning committee heard from chairman Jeremy Berridge that Via East Midlands had not supported the council’s motion for a pavement on Bishop’s Drive. The town council agreed to write to the county’s highways authority asking for action to be taken on improving pedestrian safety on the road in late 2023, and recommended a two-metre wide pavement be installed along one side of the road. The stretch of Bishop’s Drive in question, between the entrance to Bishop’s Manor and the War …