‘Rows are now erupting daily’ between car park users at a Bracknell school after access was restricted due to a teacher being injured.

King’s Academy in Binfield wrote to parents informing that vehicle access via St George’s Park, which is used for the primary school, would be reduced from Wednesday, September 18.

The decision was made due to the incident, which left the member of staff ‘hurt’, as well as ‘the increasing number of cars and students’.

The secondary school is accessed by Wood Lane, but some parents use the primary school entrance during peak hours.

Following the changes, parents have been in contact with the News to speak about how the situation has escalated further.

One parent said: “Since the event, the school has advised parents to park on residential streets but have also been providing road traffic barriers to residents to block off the public roads to stop parents parking in them.

“This is causing further inconvenience for parents and rows are now erupting daily between the local residents and parents.”

The parent, who didn’t want to be named, described the parking situation as a ‘nightmare’, with parents ‘taking every opportunity they can to gain early access to collect their children’.

The parent urged for the local community to come together and resolve the parking issue.

There are currently 17 car parking spaces for more than 300 pupils in the primary school.

Another parent, who also didn’t want to be named, said it was a ‘huge inconvenience for us parents who work and have minimal time for these pickups’.

David Luck, whose son attends the primary school said Wood Lane – the access to the Secondary school which has remained open – was ‘gridlocked’. He said following the news last week that closing one access point ‘was only going to make it worse’, claiming the pedestrian routes are ‘dangerously inadequate’.

Mr Luck has written to Bracknell Forest Council and the school to raise issues with the decision.

When planning permission was granted to Binfield Academy, the car park management plan said that the development ‘had to provide adequate car parking to prevent the likelihood of on-street car parking which would be a danger to other road users’.

The executive principal Mrs K Moore said that the school ‘will listen carefully to the feedback following our changes and work hard to find the best solution for everyone’.

This included consulting Bracknell Forest Council, who said that it was a ‘matter of the school’.