Major Fegg Hayes council housing project slammed by residents for harming privacy and safety

PARKING ISSUES: Cumberbatch Avenue.

FAMILIES face losing gardens, hedges, and fences after a council embarked on a major project to increase off-street parking on a sprawling estate.

Now residents living in Fegg Hayes have hit out at Stoke-on-Trent City Council.

They claim the ambitious scheme which will affect 194 homes across 21 roads will wreck their privacy.

The authority maintains the programme, which is expected to continue for another six months, is being rolled out to help improve the area.

But households in Cumberbatch Avenue, one of the roads included in the project, have been left unhappy at seeing hedges and fences removed and some front gardens wiped out.

Families who signed up for the scheme to have a driveway installed say they feel misled after seeing the physical work being carried out.

Resident Sara Wright said: "I wish we had never agreed to it and kept it as it was. We've got no privacy it's a nightmare."

Neighbour Joan Proudlove, aged 69, is set to lose her front garden, hedges and fences as part of the works.

She said: "I did sign up to it at the time, but I was under the impression they were just going to work on just my front garden, not the hedges and everything else.

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Major Fegg Hayes council housing project slammed by residents for harming privacy and safety