Angry Hove residents are threatening to blockade their road in a row over controversial parking zones.

They plan to set up a barricade to stop anyone who does not live there from using it as a free car park.

Company secretary Pamela Skerry claims the problems in Aymer Road have become "unbearable" since parking charges were introduced in central Hove a year ago.

She lives just one street away from the start of the Zone N parking area and says Aymer Road is packed during the day with vehicles belonging to commuters, business drivers and shoppers.

Mrs Skerry, 56, said: "There are a lot of high-occupancy homes and rest homes in Aymer Road anyway. We introduced echelon parking here to try to solve the problem but that has not helped at all.

"The road fills up every morning from 8am with vans and cars belonging to people who don't want to pay to park in Hove all day. Some of them are left double-parked all day, others park on the pavement or across residents' drives.

"Things have become so bad, some of the residents are going to organise a blockade because the council will not do anything about it.

"We will use vans and cars to close the road to anyone but residents or genuine visitors."

Mrs Skerry said they had complained to Brighton and Hove City Council but had been told nothing could be done for at least a year.

The council is set to review the parking zones in central Hove and neighbouring Brunswick and Adelaide and will consult residents.

Options could include modifying existing arrangements within the new zones or extending them to streets where parking has become a problem since they were introduced.

A council spokesman said: "We are aware of the knock-on effect controlled parking zones are having on adjacent areas.

"We are looking at introducing a scheme for the area, including Aymer Road, to prevent commuters clogging up residential roads.

"We can't introduce that overnight as there needs to be research and consultation. Residents taking the law into their own hands won't speed that process up.

"Experience suggests it can easily lead to breaches of the peace, which would be their responsibility."