Workers at a sprawling Tyneside government complex are causing parking gripes by dumping their cars in neighbouring streets according to a fed-up resident.
The unnamed local said that the area around Maddox Road and Eastfield Terrace has an "ongoing issue" with employees of the Ministry, at Benton Park using it as a car park.
Their comments were in response to an application put in by North Tyneside Council for permission in principle to build up to 12 houses at Station Approach, on land next to Benton Metro Station.
Permission in Principle (PIP) means that the suitability of the site for housing will be looked at with other matters such as the type of housing to be considered later.
But, the resident wrote to the council to flag up the traffic problems in the area. "This area can only be reached by car at present via Station Approach, which already attracts a lot of traffic and parked cars," they wrote.
"Any extra traffic and parking around Maddox Road and Eastfield Terrace would not be supportable since we already have an ongoing issue of non-residential parking by employees and users of the DWP offices on the other side of Whitley Road."
The writer added that Tynedale Road the east end of Eastfield Road and Carlton road are also heavily used as commuter parking.
North Tyneside Council's planning committee will decide on the application by mid November.
