WHY is Harlow Council victimising residents who have parking permits in their area?

These residents live mainly near the town centre, and the reason that permits were issued in the first place was because certain tight-fisted motorists would not use the car parks available as they had to pay, and crowded into the residential areas and took the parking places of the residents.

In my area we had the shoppers, the commuters who parked and then walked to the station to work in London, and the people whom I had some sympathy with, who had to visit the hospital and had inadequate parking spaces in the hospital grounds.

And now the council is going to make us pay for parking outside our homes, and the rest of the community can park free. The reason given is that they will have to take over monitoring the parking. Does that mean that they will be employing full-time wardens in each area? We all know the answer to that.

My own belief of the reason we are going to be charged is because there is going to be so many cuts in the services we will be receiving. Some highly paid director trying to justify their high salary thought this was a way of bringing in a few quid. They probably think it will pay for the 9p a week they are cutting in the council tax.

If you are in a parking permit area tell your local councillor that May is not very far away and you have the vote.

LES COBEN, Rectory Wood, Harlow.

January 29, 2003 09:00