Your photo and caption aptly sums up Lewes's new "Noddy" parking scheme (The Argus, September 20). If it wasn't so inconvenient, it would be funny.
The two councils (Tory county and Liberal district) have eliminated a lot of parking spaces, peppered the historic town centre with ugly ticket machines and notices, quadrupled charges in the car parks and increased the number of wardens from two to 14.
We have been assured our NCP team have been briefed to be less assertive than their colleagues in Brighton and Hove but I gather this means they will have to wait three minutes instead of two before slapping a ticket on your car.
The net result is chaos, inconvenience and a "parking tax" that will bring in £1m a year from residents, commuters and visitors to Lewes, three quarters of which will go to pay for "enforcement".
We're not going to take this lying down.
-John Stockdale, Lewes
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