Commuters parking in Perth residential streets are “creating a dangerous situation”, it has been claimed.
Fed-up residents living on the edge of the North Inch are attempting to curb indiscriminate parking outside their homes.
Some fear that emergency vehicles could be prevented from accessing their homes due to badly-parked vehicles.
A special meeting of the Muirton and North Inch Community Council has been called on Tuesday to discuss proposed new parking restrictions to help alleviate the problem.
The streets affected include Muirton Bank, Florence Place, Muirton Place and Harley Place, which are popular with motorists working in Perth city centre.
Many people leave their car in the residential streets and walk into town to avoid parking charges levied by Perth and Kinross Council.
One resident, who did not wish to be identified, said: “It is creating a dangerous situation as it would be impossible to get an emergency vehicle down these streets.
“The largest group of inconsiderate parkers are council employees who do not seem to have a parking space allocated to them at their place of work.
“Perth residents and visitors are losing the use of the North Inch and all the services there due to the lack of parking.”
Ian Thomson, vice-chairman of the community council, called on Perth and Kinross Council to review parking within the city centre to help alleviate the problem.
He said: “There are a lot of people who express anger at the general parking situation in Perth.
“People with young children cannot access the swimming pool or Bell’s Sport Centre due to the parking problems.
“This council has made a total income from parking for 2013-14 of £3,019,775. The council need a new strategy for parking in Perth or we will not have a town to park in.”
The meeting will take place in the St John’s Community Campus at 7.30pm on Tuesday June 30.
Councillors Peter Barrett, Andrew Parrott and Heather Stewart are expected to be in attendance.
Mr Barrett has previously attempted to get the council to change their parking policies in the city centre to try to alleviate the problem.
He said: “Locals had asked for some flexibility in charges for all-day parking on Barossa Place and Stormont Street.
“This wasn’t included in the parking proposals for the city centre, which was disappointing.
“Most of the parking on those streets lies empty all day. The same goes for Edinburgh Road.
“I suggested charging £2 per day to compete with the railway station at £3. The council could have done it as an experiment but they turned it down flat.
“If there was more reasonable charges there wouldn’t be so much parking congestion in their doorsteps.
“The council is not listening to the local community.”