THE parking chaos now visited on Kidderminster is the result we all expected when district council leader Mike Oborski claimed credit earlier this year for his "instant decision" to bulldoze the Pitts Lane multi-storey rather than do the repairs the council had always failed on.

Now the bulldozing of the Market Street multi-storey is the direct result of his wife's ambition to move the college there.

First, she voted as a charter trustee to sell land next to the library, then she proposed as a councillor to sell our multi-storey site to the college, then she led the voices on the planning committee to grant Prowting Homes permission to build new estates on college land, and finally she chaired the scrutiny committee which upheld the proposals.

This despite few people understanding why the college needs to be in town and the unsuitable place Aggborough Quarry will prove to be as a place to live.

This ranks alongside the current bleating about how much it may cost to rescue ever-more-vital children's play areas.

The council's policy of in-filling every piece of urban open land with housing (to provide shoppers for their new shed-city) whilst failing their public duty to maintain safe play areas over a number of years, will inevitably lead to more and more children forced to play on busier and busier streets, as they do in Aggborough.

Perhaps voters in Comberton and Offmore will take note of what is foisted on the rest of us, as it will affect them too.

They also will have to fight for car-parking spaces, and when their own local schools in 2002/3 are over-subscribed with children from Aggborough's new estates, and when Comberton Hill becomes totally grid-locked, they may reflect on the value of believing so easily what some short-sighted councillors say.

RD VAUGHAN

Griffin Avenue

Kidderminster