The owners want to create a parking place in the front garden of Dilkusha, foreground, but planners say that the walled front gardens are an essential feature of Dalgairns Road, which is in a conservation area. (Picture by Adrian Miller, 0952395)

A COUPLE are fighting to create a parking space at their St Peter Port home.

The Environment Department turned down CJ and Nicki Greenslade’s application to create one on their property which is in a conservation area, a tribunal heard.

Mr and Mrs Greenslade had applied to demolish their garden wall and a section of the roadside wall, to create vehicle access and a parking area. Their appeal against the refusal in October centres on there being no place to park outside their Dalgairns Road home.

The couple, who represented themselves, said that having a parking space on their property would benefit not only them but others. Mrs Greenslade said that they thought having their own parking space would deter people from parking in front of it and leave the narrow section clear of obstruction.

However, Environment planning officer Julian Pentland, representing the department, said that road safety was a traffic control issue and not a planning one.

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