A local council has been criticised for "barricading" an elderly person and a young family in to their own homes. Derbyshire Council took the decision to close a car park off and put up a fence up over the entrance to some of the properties' gardens.
The car park on Cavendish Road, Matlock now has barriers around it that appeared on April 21 after residents were given just a few days notice as to its construction, reports DerbyshireLive.
The council then decided to install two fence panels across the rear garden gates of two houses on George Road, cementing them in to the ground. There was, it was reported, no notice given to residents of this installation who can now no longer exit their homes from the back.