PRAISE Be? (Oxford Mail, June 6). Really?
This may be so for early mass-going Catholics in the St Giles area, who are favoured to avoid paying car-parking charges on a Sunday until 10am, because of the ‘compromise’ decision of the county council.
But what about the discrimination towards all the other churches in that area, where Sunday and family church services start at a more traditional time, after 10am?
Please could the council compromise for a fee-paying start time of noon, at the very least?
Other churches, apart from the Catholics, have written to complain about the reinstatement of the proposed Sunday car parking charges.
It is blatantly obvious that the needs of Protestant churches have been overlooked.
The compromise should be for the council to let all churches in St Giles have free Sunday parking for their congregations until noon.
And why do they say that self-regulated free parking schemes would be unworkable?
Have they ever tried such a scheme?
SALLY LESSITER, Fairfax Gate, Holton
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