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Sleepers Delle Gardens. Photo: Google SIR: We live in a residential road very near the university. There is an on-going problem caused by students parking their cars in our road. No students live in our small close (of just seven properties), but it has become a de facto ‘overflow car park’ for students living nearby in multiply-occupied houses and large blocks of flats in nearby Sparkford Close. Our road is a short narrow road, with a blind bend. With one carriageway occupied by parked cars, it is dangerous having to drive on the wrong side of the road, not being able to see another vehicle travelling in the opposite direction.
RESIDENTS on a Winchester street are calling on the university to clampdown on students bringing their cars to Winchester. People living in Sleepers’ Delle Gardens say students’ parked cars are creating a traffic hazard in their cul-de-sac and they should be banned. In a letter to the Chronicle, the residents say their small eight-household road “has become a de facto ‘overflow car park’ for students living nearby in multiply-occupied houses and large blocks of flats in nearby Sparkford Close.” They say the city council is not enforcing the residents-only parking zone and some students have illegally obtained permits from others who live within the parking zone, something the university says it is unaware.