PEOPLE who were given parking tickets for parking with two wheels on the pavement of their narrow streets will receive no further fines after councillors agreed to lift restrictions on their roads.

Residents in Firs Walk and Croft Lodge Close in Woodford Green had parked with two wheels up as a matter of course for years but were hit with fines after repeated visits from the council's 'spy car' earlier this year.

At a meeting of the Area Two committee last night, councillors agreed to lift the ban in both roads, meaning that residents in Firs Walk will be allowed to park fully on the pavement on one side of their road and those in Croft Lodge Close will be able to park with two wheels up.

But while he welcomed the move, Cllr Richard Hoskins of Church End ward said he feared a backlash from people living in other narrow roads.

He said: "There are a whole string of roads in the borough which are going to need the protection of being put on this list of roads where pavement parking is allowed.

"Unless we make this review public so that people are aware, those two little cars with CCTV will zip around collecting vast sums of money for the borough from all kinds of people who have been parking happily on pavements for years and years without any comeback."

But Business Manager for Redbridge Highways and Cleansing Services, Nigel Burch, said: "We haven't got the resources to do a borough wide review."

And he added: "We have informed the people who drive the CCTV vehicles that they should only enforce where we are getting complaints from residents."

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Residents in Firs Walk and Croft Lodge Close