'Accident waiting to happen' in Beaconsfield streets

Mr Gilbert took reporter Polly Manser on a tour to demonstrate the sheer numbers of parked cars owned by office workers and commuters who are in his view, although parking legally, making the roads dangerous.
Mr Gilbert, a retired property developer from Curzon Avenue, said: "People buy their houses with garages and drives and I think they have the right to enjoy peace on a general basis without knowing that Monday to Friday commuters and office workers will crowd the roads out."
Badly affected are Curzon Avenue, Wilton Road, Woodside Road, Woodside Avenue. according to Mr Gilbert.
He said: "I don't want to be a crusader, but when you speak to South Bucks District Council they say it's the job of Bucks County Council, and then Bucks tell you they have to have authority from South Bucks.... they are both Conservative councils and they are not looking after the residents who pay their council tax."
Mr Gilbert is calling for an immediate review of parking in Beaconsfield, with a view to putting in parking restrictions in all residential streets, similar to those already in Burkes Road and Furzefield Road, which have a combination of double yellow lines, and single yellow lines where parking is not allowed between 11am and noon.
He believes the councils should provide a multi storey car park in the town centre for workers.
He said: "This has been done in Hemel Hempstead very successfully. The car park is free to workers, but businesses have to pay the council for a certain number of parking spaces. It has solved the problem there."
The Advertiser called in at eight shops in Beaconsfield but was unable to find anybody who admitted to parking in residential streets.
However, Christine Fisher from Iver, who had parked in Curzon Road to deliver Chic Chat magazine, and was going to be parking in several other streets, said she regularly received abuse despite the fact that she was careful never to block a drive.
She said: "We get residents telling us to move on, saying that this is a private road, which they aren't, and saying that we are getting in the way. We've had foul mouthed abuse. Warwick Road is diabolical."
A bin man collecting refuse for Verdent in Curzon Avenue said the parked cars posed no problem to him or his colleagues.
John Charlton, head of parking at BCC, was unavailable. However he told a NAG meeting in Gerrards Cross in September that he is in favour of removing double yellow lines where possible in order to allow more parking on the streets and because he believes that parked cars slow traffic down.