Regarding the Hove Business Association's leaflet concerning the problems with Hove parking.

We have been trading in this town since 1873 and have been owned by the same family.

We have always paid our substantial business rates paid by the due date and in full without any problems.

I am therefore very upset that so many of our very limited parking spaces in this area are being occupied by cars that are up for sale.

There are several at present around our block, including one which has been in the same spot for more than three weeks.

I am told by the police that nothing may be done about them as they are taxed and licensed.

Surely, if I have to pay to trade, they should have to pay for using our roads as their showrooms?

-Joan E Shelton, E. Burkitt Ltd, Church Road, Hove