CHAOTIC scenes of traffic congestion and parking mayhem has turned a country lane in Heath and Reach into a battle zone between residents and drivers.
Motorists visiting Stockgrove are being encouraged to use the new Rushmere entrance into the countryside park at a cost of £2 a time where once car parking, off Brickhill Road, used to be free.
But car owners are refusing to pay the charge and are now parking the length of the former access road causing horrendous traffic issues.
Now angry residents, who fear that emergency vehicles will not be able to use the road because of restricted access, have been told that it could take a year for parking restrictions to be brought in by Bucks County Council – if they decide to go ahead with them. A letter from the authority to a home-owner suggests that they would be unenforcible.
Sheridan Williams, who complained to the LBO about the situation, has called for a site visit to allow council officials from both Beds and Bucks (the area straddles the county boundary) to see the congestion.
Read Tuesday’s LBO for the full story.