CONSERVATIONISTS and the householders in Broadway's upper High Street, are in dispute over on-street parking.

Broadway Trust members believe residents should continue to be banned from parking outside their homes, despite having no driveways or garages.

Two weeks ago, the Journal reported the plight of two High Street residents, Christine Anderson and Yolee Plant, who were constantly being issued with traffic tickets for parking outside their homes.

They started a campaign to have the double yellow lines removed because they said they had been redundant since the upper High Street was turned into a cul de sac following the opening of the bypass.

The chairman of the Broadway Trust, Ian Thomas, said his members would be very much against the idea.

"The upper High Street is a very special area looking as it does towards Fish Hill and the beauty of it is known worldwide," he said.

"We would be very much against spoiling it with lines of cars. Residents who bought their properties fronting the street must have done so with full knowledge that they were not allowed to park outside."

Mrs Anderson, a homeopath with a business in the High Street, said: "I very much appreciate the beauty of the village but Broadway is no more special than Moreton-in-the-Marsh or Stow-on-the-Wold where people are able to live and work there in peace. Parking is much less restrictive and consequently the villages are more prosperous."

Ms Plant said: "We are being penalised because we are less affluent than other households with their own driveways, which is totally wrong."

Both women have now decided to campaign for residents' permits as a compromise.