A KEEN photographer has complained that an 'ugly' yellow car is ruining an otherwise picture postcard shot of a street in Bibury.

Lee McCallum, known as @KookyCotswolds on social networking site Twitter, recently tweeted a photo of the famous Arlington Row in Bibury.

Attached to the photo, he had written the caption: "Bibury's elephant in the room. The picture postcard street photo-bombed by the ugly little yellow car every day."

Lee runs the twitter account in conjunction with his business Kooky Cotswold Tours. Several of his followers commented on the picture, with one woman, Victoria Algar saying: "Agree, spoils the photos. Is it left there on purpose."

However, a few social media users disagreed and said that people should be able to live in their homes without others complaining.

"As a resident of a tourist hotspot, I understand that people do have to be able to live in these places," said Twitter user MayBushImages.

Lee has said the photo is exactly what he loves about the Cotswolds, and that it 'celebrates its kookiness'.

Arlington Row in Bibury, which appears in many films at TV programmes including hit movie Stardust, is owned by National Trust.

The Trust confirmed that the yellow car belongs to a neighbour who is not a Trust tenant.

"He is, we believe, parking on the highway which he is entitled to do," said a spokesman for the Trust. "Because he is not our tenant or parking on our land, we wouldn’t want to comment further."

Although the National Trust paints the houses on the famous street, as well as their other properties, in colours based on historical evidence for how they would have been painted, they do not technically have rules on what colour cars residents are allowed.

The spokesman added: "We also have a car park behind the row where our tenants park - except obviously when they are unloading things into their homes."

What do you think of this little yellow car appearing in photos of Arlington Row? Should it be made to move or does the owner have the right to park where he/she likes?