A resident has been accused of car snobbery after a post circulated online requesting a seven-year-old "banger" be removed from outside their home.

The Facebook post appeared on the St Mary's Island Community Group, with the poster asking the owner to "consider parking it elsewhere".

He claims the "banger" is "bringing down the aesthetic" of the Chatham maritime area.

The full post says: "Can the person who keeps parking their seven year banger outside my house please consider parking it elsewhere, or better yet, part exchange it for a newer model as it's bringing down the aesthetic of the road and ultimately the whole Island.

"We paid a lot of money to live here and shouldn't have to look out onto your old car."

Nearly 100 comments were left on the post, with users unsure whether it was snobbery of the highest order, or a tongue in cheek joke.

One woman said: "I think they need to be reminded they live in Chatham.

"Some people need to understand they paid a lot of money to live in Chatham. St Mary's isn't another world."

The post, which was made on a group with more than 2,600 people in it, had around 90 comments and 36 shocked and laughing emoji reacts.

St Mary's Island is linked to the area's famous dockyard located in the Chatham Maritime development area and is now home to some 3,000 people.

It forms part of an ambitious project which started in the late 1990s to create Britain's first – and so far only – strategically planned island development.