At least 10 parents have been given tickets

The three packs of Guides, Brownies and Rainbows used to meet at a church hall in Bolton Street in Brixham.

The pack leaders say they feel parents are being deliberately targeted by attendants who turn up at dropping off and picking up times.

But Torbay's head of parking says they have to keep the road safe.

We are being thwarted in actually getting the children to and fro Rebecca Hooker

At least 10 parents have received tickets while dropping their daughters off on Wednesday evenings from parking attendants turning up regularly at drop-off and pick up-times, sometimes as late as 2030.

Parents say they to have get out of the car to escort the girls in to the hall because of where it is and the steep steps in the building.

Now the groups have moved out of town, which means they have lost some members who can no longer get to the new location.

Rebecca Hooker, the local District Commissioner for the Guides in Brixham, says parents felt they were entitled to park on the double yellow lines as they were loading.

Emergency access

"Effectively we are loading our daughters, it's a stop and drop approach," she said.

"We are trying desperately to provide fun activities and we are being thwarted in actually getting the children to and fro."

But Torbay's head of parking, Steve Hurley, says the road is very narrow and also close to a hospital and fire station.

"At any time there can be a situation where emergency vehicles need to get by," he said.

"It's not targeting individuals. If we're aware that vehicles are parking illegally and causing an obstruction then we have to make sure we look at that area at that time, it would be wrong of us not to."