HAVING had major problems with parked cars on the service road of Oxford Road in Old Marston for many years now, it was wonderful to read in the January edition of the Marston Times that restricted parking will be put in place.

Fantastic, we will be able to get in and out of our driveways safely. But due to two or three people objecting to this, Old Marston Parish Council members have now taken it upon themselves to have this changed to permit parking only. This was agreed at their meeting in January and has not been made common knowledge.

I attended the parish council meeting on February 2 to request why this has been changed, I was not given a chance to ask the questions I wanted to because it would appear that unless you can sum up your enquiry in one word you do not get the opportunity to speak. Or it could just be that I don’t live on the “posh” side of the village.

Maybe there is someone out there who can tell me why this decision was overturned?

I fully intend to pursue this at every parish council meeting until they get sick of the sight of me unless I get a satisfactory answer.

JOY MORBEY
Oxford Road
Old Marston