Under a new voting scheme, half of Wallingford's electors will have to pay for the privilege of putting a cross on the voting slip.

For the first time the town will be split into two wards for town council elections. And for two of the four voting areas, the Regal Centre will be the polling station.

The other two polling stations -- St Nicholas's School and St John's School -- both have free parking areas. But at the Regal Centre voters arriving by car will have to pay parking fees.

Bids by the town council to get the district council to pay for a series of car parking spaces for voters have so far failed.

Town clerk Andrew Rogers said: "We have asked the district council to consider this but so far there has been no positive response."