I WRITE following the letter from P Shackleton of Morecambe published last week under the headline Say no to permit parking'.

This amoral scam' has been operating in my area for several years now.

In addition to the £25 annual fee to park in the street, we have to buy multiples of two visitors' permits, therefore having to pay for friends, family, workmen and the whole world and his uncle to park. So we pay, pay and pay again.

Anyone not displaying a permit will be fined £30 by the securitate'.

Heaven help anyone if both permits are in use and a third driver needs one. That is just tough. Of course you could borrow one from an obliging neighbour, but they are then in the same precarious position.

There are no benefits - we are just being robbed.

On top of that, some of the wardens I have met are clearly graduates of the John McEnroe School of Charm, in dire need of lessons in diplomacy and humanity. Everyone has a tale to tell of unsavoury dealings with them.

I know of one who was bereaved and had friends and family speeding to offer their support. Despite an explanation, the woman warden put tickets on all their cars.

Another, after displaying a permit day and night for two weeks while here on holiday, got a fixed penalty ticket in the few seconds it took him to return the borrowed' permit to its owner.

There is no honour in heaping misery on your fellow beings and this is nothing short of a disgraceful method of screwing hard working, tax-burdened yet law abiding motorists further into the ground.

It is quite amoral and outrageously unfair.

L Lowerson, Lancaster.