New restrictions on people parking outside Bristol homes

Parking restrictions have been put in place in a Bristol residential street preventing people from parking outside their homes.

Bristol City Council has altered parking on a stretch of Cumberland Road, stopping people from using marked bays for longer than four hours from 8am to 6pm Monday to Saturday. Previously parking was not restricted.

It is believed the authority will also be installing pay and display machines along the road in the future, although the council has yet to confirm this.

Some residents are concerned that the move will cause problems for people living in multi-occupancy flats with only one parking space and others were concerned about what it would mean when visitors came to stay.

But others believe the changes have actually made the stretch safer.

One woman, who has lived in Cumberland Road for a month, but did not wish to be named, said: "I live in a three-bed flat with two other professionals and this is quite a problem for us. We relied on using the road for parking."

Trudi Farrington-Darby, 38, an ergonomist, said: "With visitors, where else can they go? If someone comes to stay for the weekend they will have to keep moving their vehicles. I have a neighbour with a baby who parks on the road and will now have to keep moving her car."

One woman, who lives in The Quays complex in Cumberland Road, but did not wish to be named, said that the yellow lines that had been put down as part of the parking restrictions had made it easier for her to pull out of the private car park onto the main road.

A man who wished to be known only as Chris also said that the addition of yellow lines had actually made it easier to get out of the complex.

No one from the city council was able to comment about the changes last night.