Derbyshire Council took the decision to close a car park off and put up a fence up over the entrance to some of the properties' gardens.
A local council has been criticised for "barricading" an elderly person and a young family in to their own homes.
The council claims there are no legal rights of way across its land but residents have slammed the move as “spiteful” and “petty". Residents in the area had formed a group, the Matlock Community Land Trust, and attempted to buy the car park. The woman claims she would have to walk further now to visit relatives having lost her shortcut through the back, something she revealed will be made impossible due to health conditions.
“Blocking off part of the car park to allow some people to park and allow people to walk out of their back gardens would be an option, but I think this has been done out of spite. They have made it as difficult as possible for you because we are putting forward plans that they don’t want you to do, that’s what we think.
The second affected home belongs to a young family who used to use the exit to take their children on their bikes via the car park. The father-of-three, who was lived there for a number of years, said: “For me it was frustrating to come home and see that this had been done to our home without any notice at all, and it was obviously pre-planned because the panels fit the gaps perfectly.
“They have clearly made a mistake and gone too far and have clearly been trying to draw the line. It is clearly unnecessary and is no way to behave at all. It is them showing a mark of authority. These fences over our garden gates don’t stop anyone else from walking onto the car park from Cavendish Road, and we can walk around that way too, so there seems to only be one reason: to mark their authority.
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