Furious residents are demanding parking restrictions after being blocked in their own driveways by Students' cars.

Residents in Demesne Furze, Headington, claim that students from nearby Oxford Brookes University are using the street as a car park because they are not allowed to park on the campus.

They are forming a committee to lobby Oxfordshire County Council to make the street a residents' only parking zone.

Tracey Boodell, who lives in Demesne Furze, said that the problem has got so bad that she often finds herself unable to get her car out of her drive to pick up her seven-year-old daughter, Amy, from school.

She said: "We have all had enough, it's got to the stage where it's very annoying. You can't get outside the driveway and you have to remember to leave the car out at the front of the house or you get blocked in."

Mrs Boodell's anger was echoed by the street's other residents who said that the street was full of students' cars from 9am until about 5pm.

Oxford Brookes University used to operate a clamping scheme on the street when the road was private.

But this had to stop when the road was adopted by the county council in August 1997. An Oxford Brookes University spokesman said: "We sympathise with residents in Demesne Furze who have parking problems.

"We have asked the county council to act on this issue and we understand that a residents' parking scheme will be in place by the summer of 1999.

"Students resident at most university halls, including the nearby Warneford Hall, are banned from having vehicles in the city.

"Any student found breaking that ban is dealt with under University regulations."

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