Residents remain concerned about the “atrocious” parking situation in their cul-de-sac and have branded the street “unsafe”.

For over a year, people living in Waiblingen Way, Devizes, have been campaigning for improvements to the parking situation on the residential street.

Many feel that the road is overcrowded with parked cars, an issue reportedly made worse by commuter parking, and that this causes “significant bottlenecks” in the area.

Last September some claimed that bus companies had withdrawn local services as a result, leaving people without public transport options.

Others fear emergency services would be prevented from quickly making their way down the route in an emergency.

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Parking in Waiblingen WayParking in Waiblingen Way (Image: Newsquest)

At the time, Devizes Town Council supported a request for parking management, but the Local Highways and Footway Improvement Group (LHFIG) felt a better approach would be to raise awareness of the dangers of speeding and of the need to park carefully and considerately.

This response has not satisfied the resident who raised the issue, and the town council planning committee will discuss whether to raise the request with LHFIG again during a meeting on Tuesday, September 10.

Last year, a petition was launched by Laura Johns asking for improvements to help reduce parking on the “unsafe” street.

She said: “The road is extremely unsafe for children, animals, elderly and emergency services. 

“For years the parking around here has been atrocious.

“99.9 per cent of the time the parking around here is so bad that emergency services cannot get down here, and with elderly and children this is not okay.

“It's that bad that if there was a real emergency, emergency services would not be able to get down here.”

Parking in Waiblingen WayParking in Waiblingen Way (Image: Newsquest)

Residents have also raised concerns about not being able to park on their road when they return from work, due to the high demand.

Some have even suggested the introduction of a residents parking scheme, but town council officers have warned that the wider community would need to support such a proposal.

Speaking last year, Ms Johns added: “It also isn't particularly fair that when some residents who work out of town for work and don't get home until 6pm have nowhere to park.

“People who also do not live on the street park on it, people who work close by park on it, and people that use the doctor’s surgery park on it.”