COPY FROM LOCAL PARQUET ?

No, you can not use COPY LOCAL with the PARQUET parser. But you can use ON NODE...

See:
COPY LOCAL

Thanks for your reply
That's a pity as I have no access to the production database servers.
Customer is moving away from Hadoop and hasn't got AWS or Google storage either so I can't create locations there for the parquet files.
Seems odd that clients can't load parquet, I hope it gets added
Regards
Dave

You can load Parquet files from HDFS!

See:
COPY Examples
Creating External Tables with ORC or Parquet Data