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Measures are planned to stop Leicester City supporters as well as Tigers and cricket fans causing traffic problems with bad matchday parking.

City council highways officials say supporters leaving their cars near junctions in the tight terraced streets of Aylestone, before walking to the sports grounds, are impeding 999 responses while also preventing residents from leaving their cars outside their own homes.

The council says commuters seeking to avoid city centre parking charges are also using the residential streets around the Grace Road cricket ground, and poor parking has disrupted bin collection with lorries being blocked by cars left on street corners.

The plan is to put in new double yellow lines near junctions which will be enforced by traffic wardens, while in the long run bringing in a residents' parking scheme.

The proposed traffic regulation order (TRO) was discussed by councillors at a planning meeting on Wednesday.

A highways officer said: “Many of the junctions at the roads near the cricket ground have been areas where motorists have been parking in a dangerous and inconsiderate manner.

“This can cause danger for pedestrians, children coming to and from school and motorists turning in and out of junctions and also the Biffa waste lorries have problems making collections.”

The cricket ground has also highlighted concerns if ever there was an incident where emergency services need access.

The Highway Code says drivers should not park within 10 metres of junctions but the council said it recognised there was a balance between road safety and providing parking spaces for residents so has tried to limit the lengths of double yellow lines to between two metres and five metres.

The official said: “It’s not all the junctions in the area but places where it was was recognised people parking dangerously.”

Councillors were told the council intends to consult with residents in Aylestone and the streets around Saffron Lane about a residents' parking scheme where people would have to buy a permit to allow them to leave their cars on the streets.

Aylestone ward councillor Nigel Porter said: “Residents tell me as soon as they take their children to school they lose their parking spaces.

“A resident has told me he has to walk his children six miles every day to school because if he goes off he’s lost his parking space.”

He said people would accept double yellow lines for all the safety reasons but would like to see a residents' parking scheme first.

He added: “Just taking away a small amount of parking will leave residents with nowhere to park.”

The council has said it could be a "lengthy” process to bring in residents' parking which would start in March and that the new double yellows could happen sooner as the proposal was in its final phases.