Beat officers in the village have met with councillors to assure them they will take action against people blocking access to elderly people's homes in the village.

Last week borough councillor Val Godfrey criticised the treatment of a group of pensioners who can't get out of their bungalow due to parked cars.

She said residents who live in Fir Lane are verbally abused by the motorists who block their drives and sometimes park on them.

When one poorly resident complained that she was unable to receive the bottles of oxygen she uses, she was told by a motorist: "There's oxygen all around, just breathe it in."

Another motorist told a woman who complained about him parking in her drive: "I'm a resident and I have every right to park here."

Clr Godfrey said: "Customers coming to a late night pizza place park outside the bungalows with their radios blaring.

"People are extremely abusive and the residents are at the end of their tether.

"Their lives are being made a misery. We need the public to be made aware."

Clr Godfrey also said the disability access on the pavements was being blocked.

She added: "It means those in wheelchairs have to go down the middle of the road."

But Clr Ken Nixon, chairman of Cuddington and Sandiway Parish Council, said CAT officer PC Paul Welsh has assured residents he will be clamping down on the individuals making their lives a misery.

Clr Nixon said: "He has already put notices in the shops warning people about where they can and can't park and what will happen if they park illegally.

"The council has provided him with 50 flyers to put on cars warning people if they don't adhere to this advice they will get a ticket and will have to pay a fine."

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