DRIVERS are fed up with commuters hogging all the spaces in a Tisbury car park.
Nadder Close car park is meant for visitors to the sheltered accommodation, shoppers and people working in the village, but some rail passengers are leaving their cars there all week long.
And some residents with nowhere to park are also using the car park long-term.
Tisbury Parish Council leases the car park from Wiltshire Council and there are no enforcement options to deter long-term parking.
The parish council has now come up with two options to boost the number of spaces in the village.
The first would involve renting a flood-prone field opposite the station for £5,000 a year. It would need expensive groundworks to make it suitable for cars.
The second option, which South West Trains appears to support, is to increase capacity of nearby private parking.
A spokesman for Tisbury Parish Council said both options would benefit High Street shoppers by freeing up spaces in Nadder Close, but the second option would be “much less costly for the parish council and also one that South West Trains appears to be happy to get involved with following an initial meeting”.
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