A MAJOR project aimed at solving parking problems across Redditch will be unveiled on Monday.

The council's environmental scrutiny committee has highlighted parking as a priority area to undergo a massive overhaul.

A ''scoping'' exercise will be carried out to identify key issues to be investigated as part of the project.

Committee chairman Iris Beech said the project would be split into different sections because of the enormity of the problem.

She said: "One of the sections will be in-curtilage parking, where we will try to encourage people to open up the back of their homes to use for parking. We can then contribute towards the cost of dropping the kerbs and allowing them to carry out the work."

Mrs Beech said they also wanted to extend spaces where there was already parking.

She said: "In some areas, emergency vehicles would not be able to get near the houses because of all the cars that are parked on the roadside.

"We would encourage anyone who knows where we can expand parking to let us know but in the meantime, we will be walking around the whole of the town to see what can be done."