A PARENT is pleading for co-operation after receiving two parking tickets within a fortnight while she collected her children from school.

Hannah Moodey, of Adam Close, Catford, drives her two children and a friend's child to Bromley Park Infant School each day.

The school, in George's Road, Beckenham, has no parking spaces but is close to a 300-space car park.

But Miss Moodey says the car park is constantly full and traffic wardens have begun to "prey" on parents as they collect their children.

She received her first ticket in March, when she parked on the zigzag lines outside the school after spending 10 minutes searching for a space.

The second was issued 12 days later, after she found a space in the car park and left her car to try and obtain change for a ticket.

The part-time sales worker is appealing both fines.

The 30-year-old said: "It is turning into an absolute nightmare.

"These wardens are preying on parents when all we are trying to do is pick up our children and get them home safely.

"When I spoke to the headteacher she said she had asked them to come to the school at picking-up time.

"She said it was a safety issue but added she had been speaking to a nearby supermarket about the possibility of using their car park.

"I can understand there are safety concerns, after all, no-one wants to see a child get run over, but when you've been driving around for 10 minutes searching for a place to stop you do get panicky, which creates an additional hazard in my eyes."

Headteacher Pat Manning said: "It is a safety issue and we are working towards a solution to alleviate the problem.

"The school is in the process of implementing and developing a travel plan to ease congestion and we encourage parents and children to walk to school where they can.

"Alternatively, we do not mind if parents are five minutes late picking up their children as long as they can park safely."