Cul-de-sac residents lash out at ‘rude and swearing’ parents, say they block their driveways twice a day during primary school runs and even prevent elderly residents from going to ambulances
- Locals ‘sick’ from school traffic chaos on their quiet street in Dudley, West Midlands
- Street is used by ‘staff and parents’ attending Northfield Road Primary School
- Residents say they face ‘verbal abuse’ if they ask parents to move cars
- An elderly resident claimed the ambulance could not park in front of his house
Outraged cul-de-sac locals have taken to “rude and swearing” parents who “block their driveways twice a day” while running in elementary school.
Residents have been left ‘sick and tired’ by the traffic chaos on their quiet street in Netherton, Dudley, West Midlands which is ‘used to pick up and drop off pupils during the week, and for football clubs at weekends’.
An elderly resident claimed last week that an ambulance was unable to park in front of his house due to the sheer number of cars strewn on the curb on both sides of the road.
Parents use Greaves Road, located at the back of the school, to drop off and pick up their children attending the nearby Northfield Road Primary School.
The school – rated ‘unsatisfactory’ by Ofsted’s inspectors – teaches 411 students aged 4-11.
Local residents have also complained about the “verbal abuse” they receive when asking parents who have “taken over” their street to move their car from outside their home.
They also claim that employees who work at the school park their vehicles on the street all day.
Residents have been left ‘sick and tired’ by the traffic chaos on their quiet street in Netherton, Dudley, West Midlands which is used to pick up and drop off pupils during the week, and for football clubs at weekends
Parents use Greaves Road, located at the back of the school, to drop off and pick up their children who attend the nearby Northfield Road Primary School
Local residents have also complained about the ‘verbal abuse’ they get when they ask parents who have ‘taken over’ their street to move their car from outside their home
Sue Willetts, 63, who has lived on the street for 30 years, said: “There are a lot of people who call me names, which is just not up to the mark.
“If it’s three times a day that you can’t get in or out of your own driveway, that’s a problem. Both school staff and parents park here.’
Her partner George Mortimer, 66, said: ‘I recently asked a woman to move after she got out of her car.
“She said I was bullying her because she was pregnant, but I couldn’t see her.”
Keith Whitehouse, 78, who has lived on the road for 32 years, said: ‘I couldn’t get the ambulance out of my house last week and that has happened two or three times before.’
Mr Whitehouse said there was no rest for residents at the weekend, with Sunday league football teams using the street as an unofficial parking lot while playing matches on the two fields in nearby Netherton Park.
Northfield Road Primary School (pictured) rated ‘unsatisfactory’ by Ofsted inspectors and teaches 411 pupils aged 4-11
Keith Whitehouse, 78, (pictured) who has lived on the road for 32 years, said: ‘I couldn’t get the ambulance outside my house last week and that has happened two or three times before’
Residents hope plans to build a 25-space car park will be approved for land nearby
He added: ‘The Sunday morning football players come down and they just park where they want and you get insulted if you ask them not to park in the dead end.
“They just say ‘so-and-so’ and everything else and you just don’t want it.
‘If you approach them, there will be a fight.
‘A man said to me ‘what the hell does it have to do with you?’
“I said, ‘I live here, and what if I come to your house and park it in your driveway, and you couldn’t get out?’
Residents hope plans to build a 25-space car park will be approved for land nearby.
The plans will be presented to the Dudley Council planning committee in December.