Families fed up with rat-running drivers speeding down a Heartsease street got together to talk about ways to solve the problem.

Chloe Smith, Norwich North MP, had invited people to join her at a meeting with local police to tackle speeding on Borrowdale Drive.

The road is used as a cut-through between Plumstead Road and Heartsease Lane by drivers wanting to avoid the Heartsease roundabout.

While the street has been a 20mph zone since 2009, people who live nearby said drivers are not sticking to that limit and called for action.

Miss Smith, who said she had received a number of emails from people about the problem, said at Saturday's meeting: 'It's a 20mph zone, but I think residents feel that is not always respected and I have a thick file of people who have complained about it.'

PCSO John Ilger told the people who gathered to voice their concerns that police surveys had shown a minority of drivers were speeding, with the fastest speed clocked at 32mph.

He said because the street is a 20mph zone already, it did not qualify to become a community speedwatch zone, where volunteers use speedguns to deter speeding, under current police practice.

But he said if enough communities in Norfolk who are concerned about speeding in 20mph zones made their views known to police, it might lead to a review of that.