A FRUSTRATED resident in Orford has complained to Warrington Borough Council about the lack of residential parking on his street after he got a parking ticket for leaving his car outside his own house.

Norris Street has limited parking spaces along one side of the road for its residents while on the other side of the road there are double yellow lines.

Because many householders have more than one car the street gets packed very quickly and residents are forced to park far away from their homes.

Many residents refuse to park their cars behind their homes because the alley way is plagued by crime and cars left there are often stolen or vandalised.

Tommy Troy, aged 42, said: "If I don't get home before a certain time I can't get a space on my own street and I can't park outside my house because of the yellow lines. It's very annoying."

Mr Troy is now in the process of appealing against his parking fine and he thinks the borough council should do something about the situation, such as introduce a one-way system.

But a shop owner, who did not want to be named, told the Guardian that he would not like to see such a system introduced.

He said: "It is an issue on this street but it's the same all over Warrington. The problem is 'King car' and unless people start having fewer cars then it won't change."

As reported in the Guardian in March , the borough council dealt with similar problems on Cumberland Street and Oldham Street in Latchford by thinning the pavements and allocating each house a parking space.

But residents complained that the alterations were too disruptive and that the work took too long to complete.

A spokesman for Warrington Borough Council was unavailable for comment when the Guardian went to press