The quality of life for people living in the Triangle between Preston Park and Fiveways declined last year when the council introduced permit parking to the neighbouring area around London Road station.

Parking spaces disappear in the late afternoon – a parent has to be home by 5pm if they go anywhere in a car with their children.

The introduction of resident parking to the Triangle later this year will make residents’ lives deservedly better.

But will it be as good as it should be? The plan is to have permit parking seven days a week between 9am and 8pm, plus a small number of pay and display spaces. This needs modifying.

Parking is not generally a problem during the working day when residents are at work so we will have the ludicrous situation of weekday afternoon visitors having to drive past empty spaces in the Triangle in order to park outside someone else’s house in a jam-packed road in the next zone.

All the council needs to do is allow short-stay visitor parking in the Triangle at selected quiet times of the working week, controlled by self-administered windscreen parking discs of the kind used by Mid Sussex District Council – simple and easy.

We regularly visit Chester Terrace three or four times a day on grandparent duties, often stopping for only five minutes. Under the present proposals this could cost us £20 a week.

It’s a high tax to pay on the kind of family support the Green Party presumably favours.

Bill Swallow, South Lane, Hurstpierpoint