A disabled man says his wife is having to push him two miles to a shopping parade, which is only one hundred metres from his house.

Richard Murray and his wife Angela

Richard Murray, 58, has Motor Neurone Disease, a degenerative muscle wasting disease, and is confined to a wheelchair.

He said he has been left almost trapped in Windmill Avenue, Bicester, because a footpath, which was promised about 19 years ago, has not been built.

If Mr Murray and his wife Angela, 59, want to reach Bure Park shopping parade, off Banbury Road, she must push his wheelchair along Windmill Avenue, Buckingham Road, Southwold Lane and Banbury Road -- a two-mile journey.

Able-bodied people can use a shortcut through a gap in trees, just in front of the couple's home. Using the shortcut would reduce Mr Murray's journey to 100 metres.

Mr Murray, who was diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease about five years ago, said: "If I threw a stone I could hit the pub, but I have to drive two miles to get to it.

"The first time we asked for a footpath was 19 years ago.

"It was supposed to be paid for by the company who built the houses.

"What infuriates me is that they promised the job and they haven't done it."

Carol Steward, chairman of Bicester Town Council's environment committee, said residents in Windmill Avenue had been consulted about the footpath but the majority wanted the area closed off.

The area has since been earmarked for hedges.

But she said: "I really feel in the light of facilities in Bure Park, I think we should revisit it."

She said she had no information about a developer having to pay for the footpath.