REGARDING the closure of Simply Health’s car park slip road to the rear of Marlborough Street on October 6/7 and 13/14.

I can only hope that the police / council/ whoever is in charge of the slip road behind Marlborough Street, ie, the rear of the houses and occupants of the houses in Marlborough Street, will have a prominent parking warden / police officer on duty along this slip road on these dates, or even ‘No Parking’ bollards.

Until very recently users of the sports centre, gym, etc have been parking along this road — on the pavement and on yellow lines from 5.30pm onwards until well into the evening. Basic bad parking anywhere. This causes problems to the occupants of the houses who need to exit and return to their drive at the rear of their house. Major problems at times.

We pay our council tax, park correctly yet have been penalised for years by selfish and law-breaking drivers.

I will, and I am sure others, will be contacting the police should this illegal parking occur who will no doubt forward me on to another authority, as previously, but this could all be avoided if some form of, eg, ‘No Parking’ bollards, other signs or even a human being (!) could be present on these days.

I am heartily fed up with even having to anticipate selfish parking.

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