I CAN sympathise with Angie Marley who has four parking tickets for parking on yellow lines because she could not get near her property due to non-residents monopolising the parking spaces (February 27).

I, like many, pay £84 a year for the right to park outside my house (soon to be £86 pounds as I noted in the same Evening Press edition). However, I can rarely get anywhere near my house due to non-permit holders using the spaces.

Quite often I park more than 400 metres away from my own home. Where are the parking attendants when you need them?

However, my friend has been on the receiving end of over-zealous parking attendants with no compassion. Not being able to park near his home in Scarcroft Lane due to parking restrictions, he has parked his car on Scarcroft Road. Over the Christmas Bank Holiday the car was broken into.

Advised by the police, he tried to cover the window and parked the car outside his house with the broken window parked closely to the wall. The aim was to leave it there until garages re-opened after the festive period.

However, he managed to accrue two parking tickets in that time from an unsympathetic traffic warden.

After a written objection the tickets were revoked, and rightly so.

Another friend parked his car in a no permit zone in Scarcroft Hill, to return to his car two days later to find a parking zone had been put around his car!

If the price of parking is going to keep increasing, then surely what has to follow is improvements for residents.

Miss A Ridehalgh,

Ancress Walk,

York.

Updated: 10:10 Wednesday, March 01, 2006