Residents are in uproar after cowboy parking operators dug up a field on the edge of their village to make an illegal park and ride. To the hundreds of holidaymakers booking a spot at New Farm Parking before jetting off from Stansted Airport, the site appears perfectly safe and legal. The signage is professional, spaces are sold online and the car park even appears on price comparison websites.But the owners of New Farm - which charges drivers around £75 a week - were served with an enforcement notice last September and told to stop trading. Instead they have appealed and are expanding.Police, trading standards and the county council have all failed to stop them.Huge piles of earth have been piled up around the site on the edge of the village of Elsenham, five miles from the airport.One couple who left their car at the car park this week as they headed off on holiday suspected something was amiss after the operators told them they must pay an additional £20 for a lift to the airport.They looked worried as they asked the Daily Mail, 'Is our car going to be alright?' before heading for the airport in one of the site's minibuses.A fuel pipe runs beneath the ground there and one local politician fears a devastating explosion if diggers continue carving out more car park spaces. The owners of New Farm Parking outside the village of Elsenham in Essex were served with an enforcement notice last September and told to stop trading Huge piles of earth have been piled up around the site on the edge of the village of Elsenham, five miles from the airport Members of the public have been using the site without realising it is unauthorised New Farm is run by SC Parking Ltd, which is owned by a developer from Barking called Aurangzaib Cheema. He has argued he should be allowed to carry on with his business as the site is already full of cars with bookings in place.Ray Gooding, who sits on Uttlesford District Council - the planning authority in charge of enforcement - said of the car park: 'It's the bane of our life. It's a very difficult situation.'They are carrying out works on a piece of land with an airport fuel supply line and in addition to that they're selling parking space and the evidence is they are using unregistered drivers to drive minibuses to take people to the airport.'They're asking for cash from people who have paid upfront for parking to take them to the airport. At the moment they're slipping between the various enforcement agencies.'Uttlesford District Council are waiting for the secretary of state to decide on the enforcement notice.'This is having a major impact on the people of Elsenham where drivers are taking people back and forth to the airport at all times and speeding through the village. I am trying to get all the agencies together and find a plan of action.'Mr Gooding criticised the behaviour of the individuals operating the car park. 'The worst part of it is there's some fairly threatening behaviour meted out towards the neighbours because they're gradually encroaching on other people's land,' he said. 'They're continually running their diggers. There's a fuel oil pipeline that runs below the surface there and they're excavating in the vicinity of that.'If that were breached we'd probably lose a couple of villages and the airport as well. It would be a major event.'Leighton Bishop, 18, has started a Facebook group of residents opposed to the site. Large earth banks have been built around the site - angering locals Professional signage gives drivers the impression they are arriving at a legitimate site