A Tenby man has ripped into the resident's parking scheme run by Pembrokeshire County Council, calling for the initiative to be brought up to date. Mark Williams, a resident of Culver Park, says he has had a battle with the county council to obtain information and figures on the scheme, claiming that the street he lives on is 100 per cent oversubscribed on a yearly basis with permits. Mr. Williams said he had contacted the county council's street care manager, Marc Owen, and traffic engineer, Ben Blake, wanting to know why the results of a survey carried out by the authority asking the people of Pembrokeshire and Tenby residents their views, appeared to have been ignored. "Tenby residents voted for more spaces for their streets and no to visitor permits, but guess what, they appear to have been ignored and the county council have gone over our heads," he said "Every street in Tenby, bar one, is oversubscribed and there are not enough spaces for what residents pay for," remarked Mr. Williams. Addressing members of Tenby Town Council at their meeting on Tuesday, Mr. Williams explained that since the scheme started in 2005, he had discovered through the 'Freedom of Information Act' that 1,194 visitor permits had been issued in Tenby, compared to just 49 in Pembroke and 34 in Haverfordwest. He told councillors that a visitor permit had doubled from £7 to £14, so the county council stood to make over £16,000 from those permits alone over the next couple of years. Mr. Williams believed the scheme was unfair as people with visitor permits would just leave their vehicles parked in the bays for the duration of their holiday stay. "It is such a problem now that if for instance we have to go off shopping or attend a family occasion, the first thing on our minds is we won't be able to park in our street when we get home and sometimes it is easier to have a taxi or catch a bus, which is not ideal in any way, as it is our expense and why should we have to go to these measures when we have already paid for permits to park!" he commented. "The 12 places in Culver Park allocated for the residents, where 20-plus full permits are issued yearly for 25 houses in the street, is clearly not sufficient, and for those who live in the street who have mobility issues and have to compete to park in their own street is a disgrace. "Why should the likes of elderly residents have to fight for a parking space that they are paying for?" he added. Clr. Mike Evans said that general parking issues in the town were due to be addressed when the town council hold their planned meeting with Mr. Blake and Mr. Owen. "When we meet, we will bring up these points on resident parking bays, along with other issues in the town that we have previously discussed," he said at the meeting on Tuesday. "It will be good for them to explain to us what the rules and regulations are in each street. Tenby seems to have the most resident bays in the whole of Pembrokeshire by far," commented Clr. Evans. Clr. Mrs. Trisha Putwain said that she would love to have a residents parking place, but there weren't any where she lived in the town. "I'm totally against visitor permits, but at the same time not for 100 per cent residents parking," she told her colleagues. Deputy Mayor, Clr. Paul Rapi, agreed that parking issues in the town needed an overhaul. "Twenty years ago we could park where we wanted, now everything is dearer in Tenby, that we're pricing people out of the town. We can't carry on like this next year," he added. Clr. Evans said that it would be publicised to residents when a date for the meeting on parking issues would be held, with Augustus Place Communit Centre likely to be the venue.