Rock bands' tour buses parked outside Oxford's Carling Academy venue are a danger to pedestrians and drivers, residents and councillors have claimed.

Officers from Oxford City Council and Oxfordshire County Council are trying to find a solution to the parking problems, which have infuriated people living nearby.

One solution could involve the tour buses - used to bring bands and their equipment to the venue - parking in a bay in nearby Manzil Way.

James Street resident Richard House has been campaigning for action to be taken against illegally-parked buses for a year, back when the venue was called the Zodiac.

He said: "The situation with the Academy is much worse.

"Quite a lot of the time they are parking double-decker buses and trailers every day.

"Sometimes they are on both sides of the road, blocking it down to a single carriageway."

And Barbara Tucker, of Essex Street, told a meeting of the city council's East Oxford area committee last week: "I'm really very concerned about parking outside the Carling Academy.

"I don't know what restrictions were put on how parking should operate when they were given permission to extend.

"But on one day there were large vans taking up the whole of those two parking bays and also just a little into the road.

"The next day there was one of those big cruiser vans out there, with a large trailer attached to it all day. It intruded at least 18 inches across the markings of the parking area."

Green councillor Craig Simmons said: "What they're doing is illegal, certainly, and a lot of them are parking on the pavement and damaging it.

"We're trying to look at alternative provision and thinking about whether we can change the status of a bay in Manzil Way."

Fellow councillor Mary-Jane Sareva said: "It's all day and it has been almost constant since they have been open."

Councillor Elise Benjamin added: "With the large coaches and the barriers it's actually quite frightening walking down there late at night, because you're squeezed into what is a very tiny space."

Richard Maides, operations manager for the Academy Music Group, said: "We are in consultation with the local authorities to ensure as little disruption as possible to the flow of traffic on the Cowley Road.

"We wish to reassure all concerned parties that we're working towards a mutually satisfactory conclusion."