Like Neil Campbell (Letters, May 20), I live next to the newly-created Prestonville parking zone and have been affected by the displacement of cars in our road.

This has made the road more dangerous for children and drivers alike and renders the Dyke Road cycle lane useless.

In correspondence with the council, I have been informed the parking zone was introduced to help businesses and residences.

However, it includes large numbers of non-business and non-residential parts, namely Dyke Road Drive, Stanford Road and Highcroft Villas. I have even been informed the residents of Highcroft Villas voted against the scheme but it was introduced in their area anyway.

These roads could have been used for the overspill from the created parking zone. Instead, the council has forced the displacement of the zone into residential areas, causing all the current problems.

The only advice the council has proposed is that if enough residents complain it will consider a parking zone in that area. It is obvious that the council is encouraging complaints to give itself a mandate to create a new parking zone and impose a car tax on more residents.

This will in turn move the displacement into other residential areas, forcing those residents to complain. The council will then consider a parking zone in that area. The council will not be happy until all of Brighton is covered by zones.

I have asked the council what other alternatives it has to parking zones and whether it will tackle the issue of parking in the areas it has now caused to be problematic.

Its silence is deafening. I appreciate I do not have the right to park outside my house but living so far from the seafront and the city centre in a road that is mainly terrace/semi-detached/detached houses (not flats) I feel I should have the right to live in a child safe road. The council has taken that right away.

-Simon Swan, Brighton