Elderly people have said they are being blocked-in and verbally abused by people who use their cul-de-sac as a "car park."
Mr Jones, a retiree who did not want his full identity shared, said the situation on Home Farm Close in Woodchurch, Birkenhead, had become a "nightmare" over the last five years, as the cul-de-sac has become plagued by "disrespectful" parkers who don't live there. He said each night "10 or 11" cars park on the around 60m long stretch of road leading into the close, often blocking residents in.
He said the cars begin to swarm their small cul-de-sac after 4pm each day, and in the past, when he has raised the issue with drivers attempting to park on their close they have become verbally abusive. He said the cul-de-sac "never sleeps" because "there's traffic coming in and out constantly," even at night.
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Mr Jones told the ECHO: " If you came back at 6pm tonight or any night then there’d be about 10 or 11 cars parked on that single road.
"They shouldn’t be here. It’s absolutely dreadful. The thing is we’re mostly all pensioners. Where are they going to park an ambulance if one of us takes a turn for the worst?
"One of the cars has been there three or four days now. It hasn’t moved at all and it's just sitting outside someone else's house.
" Some of the houses have bedrooms on street level. The cars come in and blast their lights into the windows, even if they’ve got blinds down it shines through them anyway.
"They come in they use our space to turn round. They smack into my wing mirrors so much that I’ve had to replace them six times now.
" There’s a place that’s barely ten yards away where they could turn around but they don’t, they come in here instead. I’m just sick of it, it happens every day, every night.
" When I first came here five years ago there’d be only two cars parked there, but each day and night there’s more. It’s like this close never sleeps, because there’s traffic coming in and out constantly.
" We can’t get out. At the corner we have to come this way and do a perfect right angle to get out. These all live in other houses, in other areas of Woodchurch."
Bernadette Wright, 73, has lived on the cul-de-sac for 23 years now. She said the situation had become "ridiculous. "
She told the ECHO: "Some mornings you can’t even get out with the way they’re parked. I was out this morning at 7.30am and it wasn’t too bad then.
"But when I got back it was just completely full again.
"If there’s an ambulance or a fire engine, I think they’d just have to go over the top of them, there’s no other way."
The bungalows on the cul-de-sac are owned by Magenta Living. A spokesperson for Magenta Living told the ECHO: "Magenta Living own the properties in Home Farm Close, Woodchurch which includes several bungalows with parking spaces.
"Home Farm Close is an adopted road and therefore Wirral Council oversee traffic management in this area. However, the local Neighbourhood Housing Officer will visit residents to discuss their concerns and then liaise with Wirral Council."
The ECHO understands that no laws have been broken by motorists using the road to park.
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