COUNCILLORS are set to pay a special fact-finding visit to a busy street where residents say buses are getting regularly stranded.

People living next to the No 66 bus route in New Wanstead have called on the council to reverse its decision to ban parking on the pavement on one side of the road, which they say has resulted in them having to leave their cars in the street - blocking the path of the No 66 bus.

They claim the popular service - which was finally routed along the street last year after a 20-year-campaign - gets marooned near a traffic island at the junction with Gordon Road at least once a day because it has too little room to pass through.

Councillor Michelle Dunn, said representatives of Snaresbrook ward and council officers will visit the site during the next two weeks to try to find a solution to the problem.

She said: "A visit needs to be made to the road to see what the situation is and what can be done to address it.

"We need to have a look at what is happening there initially."