Surgery-users are frustrated with people parking at the practice to do their shopping.

It has been a growing problem in recent years, with people using the car park at the back of the Elizabeth Courtauld Surgery, on Factory Lane West, in Halstead as a free car park while they do their shopping in the nearby high street.

Halstead resident Pat Hollinshead, 56, said: “Parking at the surgery when you are not using it doesn’t help anyone."