HUNDREDS of Glasgow residents will object to plans for parking zones at Celtic Park and Ibrox Stadium during public hearings.

Glasgow City Council received thousands of objections after revealing its proposal to combat obstructive parking and keep emergency routes clear on match days.

This plan included introducing permanent road signs and yellow lines.

Emergency routes, which provide direct access for emergency services, are currently traffic coned on match days, but are said to fail to stop people parking inappropriately.

Opposition to the routes required the council to refer matters to independent public hearings, with 91 objectors requesting to be heard in relation to Celtic Park and 47 in relation to Ibrox Stadium.

A report on the issue was presented to the council’s Environment, Sustainability and Carbon Reduction City Policy Committee.

Bailie John Kane said: “For people to be putting in an objection for emergency route restrictions around a football park, for goodness sake.

“It’s not all that many years ago that we had some pretty disastrous events at Ibrox. Those routes are there for a very good reason and to be using that as an objection, which then forces us as a council to go down the route of having an independent reporter look at it, quite frankly I find that pretty disgusting.”

Tory councillor Robert Connelly said: “How many are residents of the area? How many just want to come in and watch their team?”

A council officer said: “There’s quite a mix of objections and you’re quite right some of them are supporters clubs, others are from residents themselves.”

Dates for the hearings are yet to be set by an independent reporter. The independent reporter will provide a report and recommendations for the council to consider.