ON Bank Holiday Monday I took my son to Rowntree Park and to my dismay found a notice stating that in the near future charges are to be applied for car parking at £1.20 an hour.

I then looked around to find a ticket machine had already been installed.

To raise revenue by charging people to use a car park which in the past has always been free, and is primarily used by families with children, in Rowntree Park is very unfair.

Maybe if the council needs to raise money or cut costs it could look at how much it is spending on wheelie bins for recycling of garden rubbish and the collection of it. Just how much garden waste do they think we create?

Garden rubbish is 100 per cent bio-degradable so what does it matter if it goes in our normal wheelie bin?

If the council were serious about recycling it would be addressing the problem of cardboard, plastics and polythene bags which could all go in with the existing recycling.

This is far more pressing than trying to clutter my garden with another wheelie bin.

Martyn Percival,

Moorgarth Avenue,

York.

Updated: 10:33 Thursday, September 01, 2005