Brighton and Hove City Council is sending out questionnaires inviting comments on proposed modifications to its parking schemes (The Argus, July 14).

Very pretty they are too - the questionnaires that is.

The schemes themselves have been creating daily frustration and inconvenience for those they discriminate against for exactly two years now, at the same time as creating large areas of restricted roadside space which no one qualifies to use.

Residents and councillors have made clear from the outset more or less exactly what was wrong in the very poor initial design of the schemes which have now been allowed to exact their toll for more than 700 days.

Two years is simply too long to wait for the council to have second thoughts and still not do anything.

Three questions to Councillor Simon Battle as the man in charge: Do you agree that two years is already too long?

If not, why is two years a reasonable period of time? If you do, who is resigning or being sacked?

-Trevor Pateman, Hove