Residents of our road find it impossible to park on our own street due to the amount of cars parked, often illegally and dangerously, by the customers of the Al Zain restaurant on the corner who are using our road as a free car park.

My daughter was almost knocked over by a motorcycle who was driving on the pavement at speed on Melville Villas road as the cars were blocking the road.

The parking restrictions in their current state are not fit for purpose and residents are being unfairly punished. This issue has been raised on a number of occasions to the council by several residents but nothing has been done to assess the situation let alone address it.

We would like the council to increase the hours of restriction to 10pm on weekdays and weekends to prevent illegal and dangerous parking on our street.