Sir – Peter Lewis, (Letters, March 8) is quite right. On March 22, one Conservative councillor will decide whether or not to impose an unwanted Controlled parking Zone (CPZ) between Magdalen Road and Howard Street in East Oxford.

If councillor Rodney Rose, of Milton-under-Wychwood, gives the CPZ the thumbs-up, car owners will have to pay £50 a year to park in their own street.

Adults living alone will be allowed only one car-borne visitor a week. Young professionals sharing a house will have to choose which two of them can have a car to go to work.

The CPZ, as proposed, is not wanted by the overwhelming majority living in the area. But councillor Rose has refused to discuss the CPZ with residents and banned county officials from meeting with local people.

It will be a travesty of democracy if the unwanted CPZ is imposed on the people I represent.

So much for localism and cutting red tape. But whatever happens, councillor Rose will continue to have his free parking space at the front of County Hall.

John Tanner, Board member for a Cleaner, Greener Oxford