A SPRAY-can vigilante tagged a Rodbourne car following a double yellow line dispute.

Residents on Jennings Street woke to find that a red Renault had been circled with two yellow lines sprayed onto the road.

The graffiti artist had also scrawled an obscenity on to the road beside the car.

Parish council contractors are expected to visit the road later this afternoon to remove the paint.

The act of vandalism came after weeks of parking frustration on the Rodbourne street, residents said.

Workmen had dug up the gutter of the road but had failed to paint fresh double-yellow lines, leading to confusion over where it was acceptable to park.

Kenneth Brown, 38, said: “Where they’ve dug up the road you get people parking. It creates chaos along the road. People can’t get past.”

Another resident on neighbouring Guppy Street said the parking situation threatened to cause accidents at the tight T junction with Jennings Street.

“The council should repaint the lines,” said the man, 47. He suggested that a residents’ parking permit scheme, as exists in some town centre and Old Town streets, might help ease the parking problems.

Another woman, 41, who asked not to be named, said she had reported the lack of double yellow lines to the council in early October.

She spoke of her disappointment in the graffiti: “I don’t like to think that I’m living on a street where people are like that.”

Jim Robbins, ward councillor for Mannington and Western and Labour transport spokesman, said: “I heard reports of the graffiti early this morning and reported it in to the parish and the council.

“The parish manager responded immediately to say that they would have a team out today to deal with it.

“The ward councillors have been pushing the Borough to get the yellow lines repainted which is causing the parking problems in the area, but keep getting vague assurances about when they will be done.

“I am getting increasingly angry about the lack of work done in Rodbourne.

“We are still waiting for responses from the leader of the council on the traffic issues residents are having each weekend. Hopefully the Tories will learn from the excellent response from the Labour-run parish council.”