WORRIED father Paul Wigman has called for a ban to stop heavy goods vehicles using his quiet residential road.

He said the huge lorries have been using Elizabeth Avenue in Little Chalfont to get to Boughton Park, an industrial estate in Bell Lane, where toy company The Entertainer's new head office and warehouse have just been built.

Mr Wigman, who has a nine-month-old daughter, Natasha, said: "A ban should have been in place before they started the building work."

The 47-year-old salesman, added: "There are an awful lot of women and children going to and from the school in Bell Lane.

"One of the main reasons they come down here is not enough height on the railway bridge. They go past us as a cut-through. It can be busy and noisy, and this road used to be so quiet. We cannot leave the cars parked outside in the road because it gets so congested."

He added: "The road was in such a bad state of affairs, they had to mend it the road was actually crumbling."

A spokesman for Bucks County Council, which is in charge of the roads, said: "On the industrial estate some development work is being done. We have spoken to The Entertainer and contractors Anglo Holt Construction Ltd and spoken to them about the use of Elizabeth Avenue. They have been very co-operative and are using the A404 because of height restriction.

"In some cases it is unavoidable. A ban is being considered but for that to come into operation we need the support of police.

"The highways did some repair work on the road. It is difficult to attribute it to the HGVs as a lot of the roads have been damaged by weather conditions."

Gary Grant, managing director of The Entertainer said: "I have spoken to the other drivers and can categorically say none of them has been down that road."

Alan Sly, project executive manager at Anglo Holt Construction, said: "We had a few problems early on when we had a few deliveries."