WITH reference to the article in Nora Parminter’s column on November 11, about cars parking on the pavement.

I submit a photograph (below) taken in April which shows a 4x4 parked outside our house. Not only did the driver decide to park there, he parked so that the lady in the background could not get past on the pavement with her mobility scooter.

If you were organising a bad parking contest, go down to Landscore School in Threshers at school times and survey the parking for yourself - there would be lots of winners.

Now that there are extra classrooms in the school added, it will get worse.

Further up the road towards the town, a favourite trick is to park by traffic cones put there for road works to stop parking (after putting the cones on the footpath).

If you want to be really daring, you can park your vehicle outside Enfield Close across the road to a white van which is parked right on the corner. Is the whole idea to stop emergency vehicles getting down here fast?

As you approach the corner going down to Threshers, you are completely blind because the van has no windows, so you take your life in your hands.

Parking on the pavement is ignorant and should be banned and if they refuse, fine them heavily. I dread to think what will happen when 300 houses are built at Pedlarspool and no school built.

We had a person from Devon Highways, but they don’t seem to know what to do except make it worse by allowing more houses to be built and not altering the infrastructure first. They can waste money building laybys and then filling them in, even when no one uses them.

A Burge

Threshers

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