LETTER: Exorbitant charge for car parking

In the present climate, the cry goes up everyday, about ideas to revitalise our main shopping streets.

What on earth were they thinking when they added the 6pm-8pm parking, just at the time when early eaters, especially families with children, want to come out and enjoy some of our great restaurants in East Street and beyond, not to mention our great fish and chip shop that must suffer between the hours of 6 and 7pm.

Also the annoyance of leaving the Capitol, in order to purchase another ticket for the car park.

I frequently go to Cranleigh especially to the weekly market held there. In contrast to Horsham, the parking is no more than a pound in some instances, to park for two hours.

The High street is bustling, with specialist shops including a butcher’s and fishmonger’s. The market is so much better than ours with lots more individual stalls, our two markets are less interesting in comparison.

Perhaps we should do away with the Badges of Office. What a terrible expense, and complete waste.

Why do employees at the council, need a reminder of where they worked at the end of employment? There are far more worthy individuals who really serve our community, e.g. doctors, firemen, ambulance services, to name a few.

Another waste of money to us is the police commissioners. Why did we need such an expensive appointment?

We have been here quite a while now, and it seems that crime incidences have increased, not improved.

I will not be voting for this council again, I would rather vote for people who want to make Horsham a better place for visitors and inhabitants alike, we need people that understand how difficult it is to run businesses, these days, and encourage people here, not turn them away by unwarranted increases in parking charges for a start

Food for thought, perhaps if members of the council had to pay for their parking tickets, as we have to, maybe common sense would prevail.

CAROL BOWRING

Little Grebe,

Horsham