I am writing concerning ‘Parking permits and CPZs are not the answer’ (September 28) to the traffic problems in Peat Moors.

We have not only trouble with hospital staff leaving their cars here all day, but people who work in the city at the universities, also their college office staff, who park and then get the bus at the top of the road into Oxford. Some leave their cars all day in Atkyns Road by the bus stop.

We already have single yellow lines but they park on these too. One or two have been ticketed but they still park there.

These people would not like it if we descended on their streets and villages at weekends and parked our cars outside their homes all day, hampering emergency vehicle access. Residents in Peat Moors have trouble getting large items delivered. One gentleman waited in all day for a new kitchen to be delivered, only to be told the lorry could not get down the road to deliver it.

The answer would be to make the hospitals build multi-storey car parks in their existing car parks and the colleges to give up some of their land and build and fund their own park and ride with multi-storey car parks and run a university shuttle bus for their staff as Brookes does.

The people who live in nearby streets should not be penalised with parking permits and CPZS – it’s not fair. We pay our council taxes and car taxes and still cannot park outside our own homes.

Each hospital already has car parks: let them build on top of existing ones and also the university offices in Old Road. Whoever gave planning permission for these new sites never considered the big problem parking would bring to surrounding neighbourhoods. Think multi-storey and we will all be happy.

PATRICIA PENDERS WHITE, Peat Moors, Headington