Decades before I moved here there was infill building behind the row of houses (semis and small terraces) on the open land behind. The council built two blocks of two storey pensioner flats. Since I moved here people have come along the service road to park at the bottom of their back gardens on short drives or in garages, as door mirrors, etc. are at risk on the main road out front.. Anyway the cash strapped council (although happy to waste a fortune on irrelevant jobs and pointless projects) have now come up with a cash generating wheeze! They have decided deiced that non-council tenants (the properties are now a mix of council and ex-council\) should pay an access charge over their land (the road) at higher rate than resident's parking permits nearer the centre. Google says the road is a public highway so whilst the council have to maintain it do they have any right to make it a toll road for some?