PLYMOUTH City Council is carrying out a review of all on-street parking restrictions in the city for the first time and asking residents and motorists for their views.

All residents' permit holders in the city will receive a survey in the post, while others are invited to fill out an online survey at the council's www.plymouth.gov.uk website.

The review will include residents' permit zones and on-street pay and display areas, as well as parking on single yellow lines, in limited waiting bays and in loading bays.

Councillor Kevin Wigens, Cabinet member for transport, said: "Every year, we get a number of requests to introduce, amend or remove parking restrictions in different areas of the city. Over time, this has resulted in various anomalies, for example where two sides of the same street have totally different rules in place.

"This is not only confusing for residents, visitors and businesses but makes it more difficult for our civil enforcement officers to properly manage parking.

"By carrying out this review, we hope to get a clearer picture of what does and doesn't work well and where the main problems are so we can develop a more consistent approach to implementing restrictions in the future."

News of the review prompted mixed reactions from parking campaigners.

Graham Eyles has been campaigning alongside other residents to get permit parking for Salcombe Road in Lipson.

He said: "If there's a survey going on, hopefully everybody in our street will fill it in and say we've had enough.

"The problem is we've been campaigning now for three years and we are beginning to think it falls on deaf ears most of the time."

Mr Eyles said students had already returned to the area after the summer holidays and it was once again difficult for residents to find parking in their own street.

City entrepreneur Danny Bamping, who refuses to pay for a permit to park outside his home in Hillside Avenue, Mutley, said permit parking in Plymouth was "oversubscribed, not fair, not equal and rarely properly enforced."

He added: "Plymouth City Council needs to listen to the residents, because they are best-placed to decide how this can work. Parking needs to change for the better."

Mr Bamping said he had had six parking tickets in five years and not paid any of them, though the process of legally challenging them had been costly and time-consuming for both sides.

He added: "The review will be a good thing if they listen, but not if they don't.

"I'm going to fill out the survey, and I hope a lot of Plymothians do."

Bruce Abbott, campaigns co-ordinator for Plymouth Area Disability Action Network, said parking for disabled people in the city was "appalling".

He added: "I would like to see some recognition given to the difficulties disabled people have in accessing some parts of the city."

He called for more disabled on-street parking bays, and possibly bays for families with young children in pushchairs.

But Mr Abbott said the council should have consulted directly with groups such as the elderly and the disabled.

"They have not even mentioned it to us," he said.

The survey will run until Thursday, September 30 and the review is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

Mr Wigens said: "We value the whole community's views on parking issues and we want to hear from as many people as possible."