A FRESH campaign to stop dangerous parking outside a school has been launched.

Neighbours and staff at Leverton Junior School and Leverton Infant and Nursery School in Honey Lane, Waltham Abbey, fear for the safety of pupils there, with parents’ erratic parking.

Richard James, a town councillor who lives in Honey Lane, is pushing the authority that has just taken over responsibility for double yellow lines in the district to paint them between Shernbrooke Road and Windmill Close.

“People are parking on dropped kerbs and on the pavement,” he said. “Residents accept that there will always be parking there there’s a school, but it’s escalated.”

He added that as well as making the road outside the school dangerous, the parking was blocking residents in.

“People are being forced to walk on other people’s gardens to get past them,” he added.

He has put the proposal to the North Essex Parking Partnership, along with fellow town councillors Antony Watts and Michael Fitch.

“It’s a big ask – it’s a lot of money and quite a length of road to restrict – but I hope they will come back to us and take it forward.”

A car crashed into the junior school in 2010 and its site manager, Ricky Pacitto, said he had seen many near misses.

“When people drop their kids off, they don’t think of the safety side,” he added. “It obscures the view and it’s dangerous.

“People are apologetic. They know they’re doing wrong.”