Barrow Borough Council’s planning committee met yesterday afternoon to review the marshalling plan for the new entrance of South Lakes Safari Zoo.
Residents have spoken out in anger after experiencing months of queuing traffic and numerous health and safety problems.
Insufficient parking spaces has resulted in cars queuing down the U6097 and onto the A590, resulting in many people abandoning their vehicles in the road and completing the journey to the zoo on foot.
This has left residents unable to access their own properties or enjoy the privacy of their own homes.
One Melton Terrace resident, Angela Butcher, said: “One resident, who is disabled, had a hospital appointment and when he came back he couldn’t get access into his own home.”
Some residents have also reported seeing visitors using the gutters outside the homes of Melton Terrace as a toilet, with one man urinating in a garden.
The planning committee has decided to defer the decision to discharge the condition and will seek further advice and consultation with Cumbria County Council to alleviate the problem.
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