Letter to the editor: Just what does it take to get a parking ticket in the Bromley borough, particularly in Beckenham?

I do not mean the town centres, where you can get a parking ticket while you are at the machine buying your ticket to park.

I refer to Copers Cope Road at weekends, and Worsley Bridge Road during the week.

Copers Cope Road is a controlled parking zone, Monday to Sunday, with yellow lines in force 24 hours a day.

However, over the past six weeks there have been periods on Sundays where there were at least 14 cars one day, 21 cars on another, and last Sunday 24 cars, all parked on yellow lines for more than an hour.

That is not counting those cars not displaying a valid parking ticket for the day adjacent to Kent County Cricket Ground and NatWest, HSBC, Goals and Gambardo sports grounds.

That means Bromley Council willingly failed to collect at least £3,540.00 in parking charges.

Along Worsley Bridge Road, where Linden Homes are “developing” an area of Kent County Cricket Ground, the “parking restrictions” are three hours, with no return within two hours.

Cars or vans are parked here Monday to Friday from 8am to 5pm – especially as there is a school directly opposite.

Bromley’s so-called traffic wardens – those people incapable of walking more than 50 yards – appear to be unwilling to actually work, or do the job Bromley taxpayers are paying them to do.

I am not a disgruntled resident, merely somebody who is fed up with the blatant incompetence and double standards operated by Bromley Council, and the danger this illegal parking presents to walking members of the public, let alone any poor unfortunate motorist trying to negotiate this traffic hazard week after week.

M HUNT, Bromley