At a Warwickshire County Council meeting on Tuesday, the A4177 Birmingham Road was granted a 40 mph limit after two years of lobbying from Hatton Park residents.

Warwick Gates residents believe their claim is identical.

Spokesman Richard Vickers, of Tamora Close, said: "The council keeps coming up with spurious reasons why Harbury Lane doesn't qualify for a 40 mph limit.

"The council says we are not a new rural village - despite signs saying we are, it also says we don't qualify as a village because the Harbury Lane doesn't run through the estate - but the Birmingham Road doesn't run through Hatton Park estate.

Harbury Lane is an unclassified rural road, according to the council, yet the two other main roads adjacent to the estate both have 40 mph speed limits.

Mr Vickers added: "One response from the council even said I was alone doubting speed surveys they had carried out, but we have a petition of 900 names and the support of John Archer and James Plaskitt on this."

"The situation in Warwick Gates is exactly the same as the one in Hatton Park.

"Undertaking a 40 mph section was even given by the county council in their Planning Framework Document which was drawn up by them and Warwick District Council when these houses were built."

Mr Vickers challenges other claims from the council that engineering costs to make a stretch of Harbury Lane a 40 mph zone would be around £250,000.

It cost around £50,000 on the Birmingham Road - and the lengths of road are almost identical - Mr Vickers measured them.

The council have just committed £800,000 to upgrade the junction at Tachbrook Road/Harbury Lane, further fuelling residents' beliefs that cost is not the issue. Mr Vickers described the proposed junction as "using a sledgehammer to crack a nut."

Warwick and Leamington MP James Plaskitt said: "I am odds with the council on this, and pretty much everyone else. But the residents are right.

"If ever there was a case for a speed limit to be put in place this seems like an obvious case."

Despite being granted the speed limit Warwick Gates craves, residents in Hatton are unhappy because the measures have not gone far enough, the do not stretch to the bend by The Waterman pub, a known biker hangout, or the Hockley Turn, a renowned traffic trouble spot.

On Wednesday morning the eighth accident on the road since December 21 happened when a car skidded off the road into a nearby home on the Hockley Turn,

Owner Lynn Atkinson, of Haseley Manor, said: "It's the second time our house has been hit, the measures haven't gone far enough as far as we are concerned. We get accidents all summer with all the bikers and if there was a limit in place it may deter them from coming."

Coun Jose Compton (Con, Lk Wootton) was at the Area Committee meeting on Tuesday discussing the Birmingham Road proposal.

She said: "We are happy to accept what was on offer for Birmingham Road because the Hatton Park residents have been campaigning for a long time.

"But we wanted a bigger stretch of the road to be 40 mph."

Birmingham Road resident Peter Wilkins said: "I actually objected to the proposal on the grounds that the measures didn't go far enough.

"I have only lived here five years and in that time three people have died, I don't think the council appreciate just how fast the road is."