You will be happy to know that there is absolutely no need to introduce a residents' parking scheme in the north Summertown/Cutteslowe area.

There is plenty of parking space for residents and their visitors art all times.

Any interference on the part of the council will simply disrupt a currently harmonious system and cause further nuisance to those of us who live here.

The only problems we have experienced have been when the council misguidedly applied residents' parking to adjacent streets in Summertown, causing a temporary influx of commuters parking in this area. This problem has now entirely disappeared.

If there is pressure on parking spaces in some residential streets, this is due to the council's policy of continually reducing areas where the public could formerly park without disrupting traffic, and replacing open parking with meters, residents' schemes etc (as, recently, in South Parade). if the council wishes to free residential streets from congestion, the answer is simple: remove all parking restrictions and charges for North Oxford except where parking would cause obstruction.

The council states in its consultation document that: The right to occupy a residents'...parking space has a value...it is reasonable for the council to take account of this.' There is indeed a value; it is for this that we pay our council tax. To propose to charge us again for the same right is presumptuous.

I understand from the various publicity materials that a paid-for residents' parking scheme would not be profitable to the council.

Since, therefore, any such scheme will be costly to the council and disruptive to the population, it will, I am sure, be delighted to know that it can abandon this expensive and disruptive scheme in full confidence.

Unless it does so, the suspicion must remain that there is some idealistic desire on the part of the Council to micro-manage the lives of Oxford residents and to charge them for the pleasure of doing so.

This is not what councils are for.

SR Sholl Wentworth Road Oxford