New double yellow lines installed on Marlow’s traffic black spots have sparked a backlash amongst residents – with one disabled driver saying she struggles to park outside her house.

Following a town wide review of problem areas over the past two years, parking restrictions were placed on streets including Dean Street, West Street and Newtown Road.

However people living on Dean Street have said the lines make it impossible to park their cars on the road and believe they will just force drivers to clog up other residential streets in the town.

A blue badge holder, who did not want to be named, said: “Everyone seems to park down this street and us residents are getting pushed out.

“I’m disabled and hold a blue badge and it is impossible for me to get a space outside the house.

“We all thought it was just going to be single yellow lines. We also proposed that people should be able to park diagonally in the bays out the front to allow more cars in but the council said it would be difficult to back out on to the road.”

For years, residents and businesses have been calling for an overhaul of the parking system in the town’s increasingly overcrowded streets - with many homeowners calling for permit parking on their roads.

The ongoing consultation was launched to assess dangerous parking spots two years ago to free up some of the troubled streets. This was separate from the £80,000 parking review promised to Marlovians in 2013, which ultimately failed to find an answer to the town’s traffic nightmare.

Another Dean Street resident, Jacqueline Atkins, believes parking would be bad on the street with or without the new restrictions, and she rarely moves her car as she fears she will never get the space back.

However county councillor Richard Scott insisted the majority of residents consulted throughout the town were happy with the yellow line proposals.

He said: “Over the last two years we have been collecting roads and corners in town where there has been dangerous parking.

“It needs two stages of consultation. The first we contact people who are immediately affected and the next is we consult everyone in town who wants to participate.

“Two thirds of people said they were happy with the proposals. Of course some people did not like it.

“As for Dean Street it was one of the most complained about streets before the consultation occurred because too many people were parking on the west side.”