TEMPORARY bollards will be installed along verges in Southview Rise after residents failed to adhere to requests to stop parking there.

The move comes as part of an initiative to sort out an escalating parking problem on Alton’s Greenfields estate.

Hampshire County Council has written to all householders living along Greenfields Avenue and Southview Rise with a request, under the Highways Act 1980, that they do not park on the grass verges.

The letter goes on to say that “the car parking situation is being closely monitored” and advises residents that if damage is caused to the highway verges, which are not designed to carry vehicular traffic, the county council, as the highways authority, will seek to recover repair costs from the owner of any vehicle identified as causing damage.

The county council said that while the number of vehicles parking on Greenfields Avenue had reduced, parked cars continued to damage verges on Southview Rise.

The statement said: “We will be installing temporary bollards on Southview Rise in the next couple of months to allow the verges to recover.”