Vallance Gardens is the centrepiece of the central Hove Zone N parking scheme.

Here, seven months into the scheme's operation, you will still find the residents-only bays meticulously marked outside each of the big houses.

They all have off-street parking and are therefore not eligible for residents' permits.

So the bays are empty of any legally parked cars and Vallance Gardens, with its wide deserted vista, must now be a very pleasant place to live.

Aymer Road is just outside Zone N and remains parked and double-parked end to end with cars belonging to all of us who can no longer park near our Zone N homes or workplaces.

I guess Aymer Road is not such a pleasant place to live now as a result of Brighton and Hove City Council's decision to cut the amount of useful parking space in Zone N and evict the cars belonging to those residents, like myself, who do not have off-street parking.

It really is a tale of two cities, about which the council appears to have no shame whatsoever.

-Trevor Pateman, Dolphin Court, Hove