Drivers parking on double yellow lines in Station Road, Borehamwood, will get tickets, it emerged this week.

Following the article ‘Busy road’s yellow lines are pointless’ in last week’s Borehamwood & Elstree Times, a spokeswoman for Hertsmere Borough Council said the lines in the road are in fact regulated and anyone parking on them is liable to get a parking ticket.

The council spokeswoman said: “It appears we may have been talking at crossed-purposes so we are sorry for any confusion this may have led to.”

A section of the yellow lines painted in Station Road was not enforceable before the whole road was adopted by Hertfordshire County Council in 2005.

But once that section came under the county council’s control, borough council parking attendants have been able to issue parking tickets to drivers parked on all of the lines.

However, the borough council decided not to enforce them until they were recently repainted because they had become difficult to see.

There will still be a public consultation next year into the possibility of introducing controlled parking bays in Station Road and roads leading up to Elstree and Borehamwood station next summer.