Lazy drivers are creating chaos in Silsden at weekends, town councillors have claimed.

Cars left “strewn” on the pavements of Keighley Road and Belton Road when Silsden AFC play have provoked a steady stream of complaints from the town’s residents.

They say that vehicles parked on both sides of the roads make it difficult for other cars to pass and for pedestrians, wheelchair users and pram pushers to access the pavements.

Craven Neighbourhood Policing Team officers had been patrolling the area but recent changes in legislation have meant that Bradford Council parking officers are now in charge of issuing tickets.

Councillors originally breathed a sigh of relief when Silsden manufacturer Habasit Rossi offered its car park further up Keighley Road to match-day visitors and spectators but it appears the facility is being ignored. Councillor Alison Coward said: “There is parking for them to use but they don’t use it because they are lazy.

“There have been three cars parked in Habasit for the last three weeks – just three cars.” PC Peter Merrifield asked that the council considered requesting double yellow lines to be painted on either side of the roads, which Sgt Jo Beecroft, from Craven NPT, who was at the meeting, supported.

She said: “There is enough parking for them to use on other streets around town but people just do not want to walk.”

But Cllr Chris Atkinson was opposed to the double yellow lining.

He said: “The football club needs to put an A-board up that says ‘parking this way’ and point to parking further up the road at Habasit, because at the moment visitors to the town don’t know where it is.”

The council resolved to send a request to Bradford Council for double yellow lines to be painted in both roads.