A GROUP of angry residents are calling on the council to provide them with a safe parking area after receiving parking tickets outside their own homes.

The homeowners, a number of them Orange Badge holders, all live in Knowsley Road on the stretch between Boundary Road and Elliot Street, and say the tickets were issued on Sunday, April 20, when Saints were playing home to Warrington Wolves.

Greg Peet, who is himself disabled, told the Star: "We were given the tickets by beat policemen who were patrolling the Knowsley Road area while the home match was playing and this is not the first time it has happened either."

Although there are double yellow lines outside his home, Greg said: "We have absolutely nowhere else to safely park our vehicles. At least two families have found this to their cost, having suffered varying degrees of vandalism to their cars while parked in Elliot Street or even, as advised by officials, on the public car-park of the Nag's Head pub."

And he called on St Helens Council to provide a residents parking scheme similar to those operated in streets near to the town hall, adding: "I hope the council will show us the same consideration as there are a number of disabled people living in the road who cannot afford to pay £20 every time Saints play a home game."

A spokesman for Merseyside Police said they were looking into the matter but declined to comment any further at this time.

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