Angry residents working at home during lockdown are getting hit by parking tickets after a plan to stop selfish commuters using their road as a free car park backfired.

Crossthwaite Way in Slough was once a favourite spot for commuters who did not want to pay to park all day at Burnham Station car park while they took the train to work.

They would park both sides, often blocking the way for dust carts.

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The solution by Slough Council was to impose a parking ban between 10am and 11am so that 'all day' parkers who did not live in the road would get caught out and ticketed.

But resident Brian Peedell, 67, says that Government instructions to people to work at home means that most of the people who live in the road now park outside all day themselves and are being caught out by the new system.

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He said: "The Government wants us to work from home and stay in as much as possible. So why does council still give residents parking tickets knowing we are in lockdown.

"Surely there should be some dispensation for residents."

Brian himself often does night work and says he gets caught out when he tries to sleep during the day.

He said: "You end of thinking 'oh, it is 10am again. Now I have to ride around for an hour before I can park again.

"It's a bloody nightmare."

He says that no-one wants a return to the days when commuters parked both sides of the road blocking the route for dust carts.

But he is calling on Slough Council to bring in a system of permits for residents so they can leave their cars outside their homes