WORK has started on a project to ease parking problems and improve areas of green space in parts of north Hartlepool.

The work is being carried out in Miller Crescent, Fulthorp Avenue, Riddlington Way and Goldsmith Avenue.

It involves improving access and building parking bays on some of the grassed verges, as well as creating turning areas and laybys beside some of the roads.

The £200,000 scheme, expected to take six weeks, also covers Warren Road and Davision Drive.