Residents have hit a roadblock in their campaign to be able to park their cars along a Newquay street.

The group ‘Just tell me where to park my car?’ launched 14 months ago in response to the lack of parking for the 80 households along Tolcarne Road.

Residents say the situation has been made worse by people parking in the area to visit local shops, restaurants and beaches including Great Western and Tolcarne.

But after staging a public consultation and appealing to Cornwall Council for help campaigners say they are getting nowhere fast to resolve the “desperate” situation. 

Residents say surrounding roads are becoming more and more congested due to the lack of parking spaces in the residential area.

Louis Gardner, the Cornwall councillor for Newquay Central, says there are plans to provide extra parking spaces along Tolcarne Road, Edgcumbe Avenue and Quarry Park Road as well as making current restrictions in parking more favourable to local residents following the public consultation. He said the scheme would be put into effect “later in the year.”

A spokesperson for ‘Just tell me where to park my car’, said: “We started the Just tell me where to park my car? campaign on Tolcarne Road last February and we’re trying our best to get help for our road and little community.

“We’re in a very desperate state here on Tolcarne Road, with now over 80 front doors where there used to be only 26, and prices so high that everyone is cramming as many people as they can into each property to share the cost. 

“More residents now have cars due to needing to work harder and further afield to afford the higher rents, and the situation has become horrendous for all of us.  

“Tolcarne Road has not a single parking space for residents, the whole length of it. The surrounding roads are now heaving.

“It’s made worse by the police station car park over-flowing, The Great Western Hotel residents and visitors, Airbnbs on our road and the school pick up and drop off but that’s always so brief and people parking to shop in town.

“The council closing off access to empty council buildings car parks out of hours and all the nice new restaurants by us.

“Families and surfers visiting Tolcarne Beach and Great Western Beach, which both do not have a car park. Newquay being more and more popular.

“People catching the train as the small private car park is always full so people overflow.

“But mainly it seems to be that more people are now living in fewer properties, and they have cars as they need higher incomes. A two-bed flat along our road is £1,000 a month now. That’s potentially two couples sharing and four cars. 

“A few years ago that would have been just one or two people sharing.

“There’s a property being squeezed into an empty plot at the end of the road. It’s two x two bedroom flats and a one bed, all with no parking. Yet potentially bringing another 10 cars. It’s a perfect storm and we are really stuck.

“We door knocked and flyered over 90 properties last summer and spoke at a Newquay Town Council meeting to try and get help.

“We’ve gathered quite a following, and at Cllr Louis Gardener’s advice, we’ve been patient and hopeful. 

“But there’s been no help at all, and we’ve decided it is time to try harder to get our voices heard.

“We just want to live here well; to help the town, its visitors, its residents, its wildlife and those that care about our amazing town.”

Cllr Gardner said: “I have engaged with local residents on this issue and as a result Cornwall Council have put forward a new scheme which aims to increase the number of parking spaces along Tolcarne Road, Edgcumbe Avenue and Quarry Park Road as well as making current restrictions in parking more favourable to local residents.

“This scheme went out to local consultation.  After full consultation the scheme has now been amended to take into consideration as many of the comments as possible and will be put into effect later this year.”