NEIGHBOURS who have put up with months of disruption from a building site will be banned from their own parking spaces.

Signs forbidding permit holders from using the bays in Walton Well Road, Oxford, were put up three months ago to allow lorries to get to the Berkeley Homes 186-flat development at the former Lucy's factory.

But Oxfordshire County Council, which is responsible for parking enforcement, has temporarily suspended the ban on parking between 8am and 4pm, Monday to Friday, after residents complained.

However, it will be enforced at some stage, to the anger of locals.

One resident, Ian McGlade, pictured, is still unhappy he and his neighbours have been kept in the dark and made to play second fiddle to developers.

Mr McGlade, who lives in the road, said: "My neighbours have been challenged by building workers and told they would have their cars towed away. So far, as a street, we have endured a great deal of disturbance with the redevelopment of the site, including a long period of demolition work with all the debris in the air.

"It seems to me that Walton Well Road is being asked to bend over backwards to accommodate construction work that will not benefit our community in any way. This will be a gated community after all.

"We are already enduring all the normal headaches of living next to a building site and now we are to lose our parking rights as well."

Residents were notified of the parking changes by road signs but most residents are still using the bays without getting a ticket, because parking attendants have not enforced the ban so far.

Mr McGlade said: "We are all still parking there as normal because most people hadn't noticed the signs. I have no intention of taking any notice of them."

Ashley Prior, the county council's deputy area engineer, said the restrictions would not be enforced until absolutely necessary.