Tougher parking rules and more traffic wardens on a Shipley street would be bad for businesses, but good for residents, say those at the centre of possible changes.

Dockfield Road cuts down to Leeds and Liverpool Canal from Otley Road and serves several major employers.

But people in a row of terrace homes say their lives are blighted due to selfish parking by workers and business callers. Those residents have submitted a petition to Bradford Council’s Shipley Area Committee calling for protected spaces in front and behind their houses.

They want strict “Residents Only” parking to be enforced in front and behind numbers 1 to 41 Dockfield Road.

Nurse Amy Walker and her partner engineer Jamie Fridlington are moving out of their home partly due to two years of parking problems.

“Finding a spot during work hours has been horrendous,” said Miss Walker, 22. “Sometimes I’ve had to wait ages at the end of the road with my baby daughter in the car until a gap becomes free.”

Mr Fridlington, 22, said he was glad they were moving: “I work shifts and sometimes I came back in the day and it was impossible to get in.”

Firms opposite the terrace have some allotted parking permits and managing director Elliot Long of Specialist Covers said the loss of those or stricter rules would be a blow to his and other businesses. We have doubled in size in five years here and now employ 51 local people,” said Mr Long, of the company which makes elite car covers.

“We have prestigious visitors from McLaren, Formula One and recently someone from Bentley had a ticket slapped on his Bentley during a visit.

“That was unnecessary and a bit embarrassing.”

Shipley Area Committee meets on Wednesday to consider Dockfield Road and officers have recommended no change to rules on parking in front of the houses, nor introducing restrictions to the back of Back Dockfield Road. However they suggest: “That officers be instructed to request that the Council’s Wardens undertake increased enforcement activity regarding the existing Residents Only Permit Parking scheme on Dockfield immediately fronting properties nos. 1-41 Dockfield Road.”

It is recommended that the road remains traffic calming waiting list.