Orpington residents claim a garage is clogging up residential streets with their cars due for repairs.

Neighbours of The AVA Group, based in Perry Hall Road, say minibuses, lorries, tow trucks and cars are parked indiscriminately in front of their houses.

Residents claim over the last couple of years vehicles have been scattered across the surrounding roads, which have no parking restrictions.

Some are left for weeks which they say greatly affects the elderly and those with small children.

Paul Campbell, 59, of Coleridge Way, said: "They don't seem to have enough room where the garage is so they use the residential roads to dump cars.

"There was a van parked which got broken into and someone left the handbrake off. It rolled into another car.

"When they bring these rusty cars here it attracts crime.

"We’ve had up to 14 vehicles in one road, it's ridiculous.”

Mr Campbell, who manages one of the estates, added: "If they have eight large vehicles they can take anything up to 15 parking spaces."

"We don't want them to use the roads as a dumping ground; it’s unjust and it's unfair."

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Residents recently successfully lobbied to have a 15 seater minibus moved last week.

Colin Sankey, 68, a painter and decorator from Glendower Crescent, said: "I phoned the council after a minibus was parked outside my house for over two weeks.

"They keep bringing their motors around here and leaving them for two or three weeks.

"It's getting on everyone's nerves; it makes all the neighbours angry.

"I have to park far away from my house and walk back."

But AVA boss Roy James said: "If anyone wants to park on the road there they can as long as they've got an MOT.

"It's a public highway; it doesn't belong to the people who own the houses.

"I can park wherever I like it's not breaking the law."

MORE TOP STORIES A council spokesperson said: “The Council has removed abandoned vehicles in this area in the past and has written to AVA’s Head Office in the interests of neighbour relations, but beyond that its hands are currently tied.

“If there are no parking restrictions, then as long as a vehicle is taxed, not a heavy goods vehicle and is not causing an obstruction, it can park on street in the same way that any other vehicle can.”