My partner and I have been living in Lansdowne Street for about four years and parking has always been a problem with resident permits enforced.

This is unfair, considering we pay road tax, petrol tax, council tax and every other tax.

Having no choice, we have applied for a permit only to be told there is an approximately ten-month waiting list.

We have to dodge the traffic wardens or pay more than £700 a year on meters which, considering my girlfriend is a support teacher earning approximately £6,000 a year, is more than ten per cent of her wages just to park.

We have two small children and have had the car impounded for leaving it overnight when the kids had to be put to bed and could not be left alone while we spent half an hour searching for somewhere to park.

Brighton and Hove City Council has now imposed more restrictions, right up to the Old Shoreham Road.

We have had two tickets while taking the shopping in because we live on the top floor and it takes a few minutes to get the stuff in the fridge.

One evening, there was an NCP van towing away my neighbours' cars for parking on double yellow lines at night.

It is starting to feel like persecution. We are really at our wits' end over this.

-Symond Lawes, Lansdowne Street, Hove