What is becoming of our road, Cobden Road?

I have lived here 46 years and it’s never been so bad.

Cars from all over the neighbourhood park here.

On one side it’s side-on parking but on my side of the street it’s chevron parking, in a dangerous manner as cars overlap the pavement by as much as two feet on some cars and tow bars stick out.

You cannot even walk two abreast on the pavement in some places.

Two cars cannot pass in the road from opposite directions as there’s not enough room and it’s like a game of chicken seeing who will back up first.

I have on several occasions asked a local councillor why this is the only road that’s not one-way like the roads above and below Cobden are and was told this was because it’s a wider road.

This is not the case with the state of the parking. The latest stunt by the council to bring down the look of the area was in December.

Some bright spark thought it would be a good idea to dig up half the council-planted garden and concrete it.

I asked the workmen what was going to happen, as this area is right on the corner of Cobden and Islingword Road.

I was told it was going to be a bike shed for the neighbourhood.

They surrounded it with barriers and sand bags to allow the concrete to dry, but since then all barriers have been moved and thrown on to the concrete by drivers parking on the pavement and it looks a complete eyesore as nothing has been touched with this so-called bike shed and it’s now March.

It’s just been abandoned.

This area needs the warden to look into why cars continue to park on the pavement. The pavement is for pedestrians.

John Ashdown, Cobden Road, Brighton