IS this Britain's tiniest parking space - measuring just over a foot?

The mini-gap between two sets of double yellow lines can fit nothing bigger than a child's toy car.

The 43cm (17 inches) gap is only a little wider than a piece of A4 paper - meaning the average family car would never be able to fit into it.

The space, on the corner of Fleet Street and Trafalgar Arches, in Brighton, has been created to show where public land ends and private land starts.

A spokesman for Brighton and Hove City Council said that the yellow lines run up to the edge of the private property and the owner of that land has painted on their own set of double yellow lines.

He added: "This is where some council lines run up to a private property – the owners of which have added some yellow lines to their own road.

"As we didn't paint one of the sets of yellow lines we're not responsible for creating the gap."