• I AGREE with K Fallon that there are too many cars parked on our streets, (Reducing car use is key to the better use of our land, April 2).

However it is not residents’ cars that are the problem. Outside restricted hours anyone can park, not just in a designated parking space but on single yellow lines anywhere in the borough.

First, the council needs to put in more extended double yellow lines especially at junctions.

There are dozens of places where vehicles can legally park within a few feet of a junction and are a hazard to other drivers, pedestrians and cyclists.

Second, when residents’ parking was introduced, each area was able to choose the restricted hours they thought appropriate.

In my neighbourhood these are from 10am to 2pm, Monday to Friday only.

Anyone can park here from 2pm until 10am the following day during the week and from 2pm on Friday until 10am on Monday. There are often commercial vehicles parked here over the weekend.

Residents who use their cars during the day don’t need to get a permit, and people who live in adjacent areas with longer hours can park in this area in the evenings and at the weekend without a permit.

We don’t have match-day parking restrictions although we are in within walking distance of the Emirates Stadium, so that on match days the area becomes a parking lot.

There is a good case for reviewing parking restrictions and making them longer and more uniform in the borough. This would discourage people from driving into residential areas unless they had good reason to.

I don’t think it would be helpful or neighbourly to penalise people who actually live in the borough for owning a car.

M HALL
Kingsdown Road N19