IN 2009 a group of residents got together and formed a blockade in protest at the lack of action by the council to stem the flow of traffic using the street as a short cut and to protest at pavement parking – a constant problem then and now.

As a result the council designated Glebe Street and Gordon Street in Leigh as one-way and imposed a ban on pavement parking in those streets.

However the council stated that only the police can deal with the issue of pavement parking.

Here we are seven years later and the problem is worse than it ever was.

The streets are still used as short cuts, cars zoom up and down them in both directions and the pavements are like car parks most of the time, with very little room left for pedestrians.

Most of them assume they have a right to park on the pavements whether they live there or not, when the simple fact of the matter is pavement parking is illegal.

They pay road tax that gives them the right to park on the road but they have no right at all to put their vehicles on the footpaths.

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