PARENTS will no longer be able to park outside a Colne secondary school if waiting restrictions are put in place.

Pendle Secondary School, Gibfield Road, has asked Pendle Council to reinvestigate restrictions because parents' cars are creating an obstruction, preventing emergency access and making it difficult for school buses to get through.

The school made its request after an ambulance struggled to negotiate the road.

In a report to Colne and District Committee, highways officer Simon Bucknell said: "Emergency vehicle access and improving the public transport option for students at the school should be considered paramount, rather than convenient kerbside parking space for parents to collect their children in the private car.

"The waiting restriction proposed should have a minimal effect to residents on Gibfield Road, consider the restriction only applies to the 3pm to 4pm Monday to Friday period, but will increase kerbside parking in adjacent streets."

Colne councillors have been advised to introduce a no-waiting restriction on the north easterly side of Gibfield Road from its junction with Carleton Road to its junction with Brunswick Drive between Monday and Friday, 3pm to 4pm.

At the same time, there will be no waiting on the north easterly side of Gibfield Road from its junction with Penrith Crescent for 15 metres south east.

Councillors have also been asked to introduce no waiting at any time restrictions on the north easterly and south westerly side of Gibfield Road from a distance of 15 metres in a south easterly direction from its junction with Penrith Crescent to its junction with Hereford Street.

Colne committee meets at Colne Town Hall on Thursday at 7pm.