East Oxford households have been given another chance to have their say about plans to charge people to park outside their homes.

Oxfordshire County Council is consulting residents, residents' associations and city councillors on plans to introduce a controlled parking zone in the Magdalen Road area, Divinity Road area and Iffley Fields.

Anthony Cheke, chairman of Hurst Street residents' association, said: "We have already been suffering from being on the edge of the Bullingdon Road parking zone.

"It is important to consider in Magdalen Road there are businesses that require a certain amount of parking for customers.

"We would like to see a zone that is more flexible than the ones that exist - there aren't anything like enough places in those streets.

"The existing zone needs to be completely rethought in conjunction with additional zones that are planned."

Thelma Martin, chairman of Fairacres Road residents' association, said: "We have areas where almost all residents have no off-street parking and areas which are close enough to the city to be used as unofficial park and rides.

"If controlled parking zones come to those areas, it should either be all of them or none of them. The worst of both worlds would be a street on the edge of a scheme that is not part of it."

If controlled parking zones were introduced, permits would cost £40 per vehicle with 25 visitor permits per six months for everyone aged 17 or over.

Joy White, transport planner at the county council, said: "We have started to think about possibly amending the boundaries slightly.

"One of the things that may be considered is allowing pavement parking."

She added: "We have had a lot of input from local residents."

A number of residents' associations have produced their own surveys of parking in their streets, which will be included within the feasibility study.

Nuala Young, chairman of Oxford City Council's east area parliament, said: "My first reaction is that there is not unlimited space. If permits are just handed out, we have got an inflation of permits."

Craig Simmons, who represents the St Mary's ward on the council, said: "There have been attempts to introduce car parking permits to East Oxford before and it was a bit of a battle.

"We should have introduced it some time ago because the problems have got worse and worse and it will continue to do so."

Elise Benjamin, Iffley Fields councillor, said: "I am very concerned about allowing pavement parking.

"We have very little pavement space as it is. I don't feel it is appropriate to encroach on the little pavement space that we have."

The feasibility study, which includes responses from the consultation, is set to be considered by councillors in February.