SIR - it is with sheer disappointment that I read in the Worcester News of the objections put forward by Andrea Bedwell and Julia Bridge to the proposed parking restrictions in the Warndon Villages.

As residents of Hoskyn's Avenue they are apparently as yet not affected by the plentiful numbers of unwanted cars parked outside their homes. If she has a petition with 100 signatures on it, I wonder how many were procured by instilling the notion that these lines may devalue their houses.

The fact of the matter is that residents of Nightingale Avenue who wished to sell their home was told by an estate agent to put it on the market after the lines were put down as the house would be more saleable.

I feel the residents of Hoskyn's Avenue should be aware that the parking proposals for that street is only effective from 8am till 6pm on weekdays only. This will mean there is plenty of scope for the washing of cars on the road at weekends (the most common time) and no problems with people visiting at evenings and weekends (when I believe most visits take place).

I feel these objections are unsubstantiated and proposed by residents who are a little too self-absorbed and unaware of the torment that some of us suffer. If a fire engine could not gain access to their parents' bungalow, maybe they would think in a different way.

I believe that when at least one of the nearby businesses opened, they offered their staff significant cash bonuses to walk or use public transport to work.

This will only encourage staff to drive somewhere close, for example outside my house, and walk the final hundred or so meters to claim their prize!!

STEPHEN SMITH,

Nightingale Avenue,

Worcester.