DEVELOPERS could be forced to put traffic calming measures on new estates before they are given planning permission.

Highways chiefs do not have enough money to put road humps on all the streets where they would like to slow down traffic.

So they plan to ask developers to come up with the cash for roads where there are likely to be children playing.

Cllr Jack Foster, chairman of Bolton's planning and environment committee, has revealed that they have only had enough cash to carry out a fraction of the schemes which need doing in the last few years.

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