I read with interest the article concerning the new parking scheme in Portland Road, where I live, and Colette Murphy's comments (The Argus, July 19).

The article said the scheme would aim to eliminate double parking.

Most double parking in Portland Road is of delivery vehicles, parents dropping off or collecting children from the nursery school, residents unloading shopping and so on.

This doesn't take long and causes only minor inconvenience.

A council spokesman stated: "All-day parking will be available in some roads south of Portland Road, within the current Westbourne parking scheme but on Portland Road itself we also have to be mindful of the need to encourage short and medium-term use of shops and other local businesses."

But this is exactly what happens now. People stop to shop and go, or they live or work there.

He didn't mention the roads south of Portland Road, between Tamworth Road and School Road, are in a different parking zone, so they are unavailable to residents and businesses in that part of Portland Road.

Like many others, I can no longer park in Titian, Reynolds, Raphael and Hogarth Roads and will have to buy a parking permit to allow me to park as near to my home as possible.

Where I live in Portland Road, there are four businesses with flats and maisonnettes over them.

Our new parking area is shared pay-and-display and residents-only and has room for five cars. If the four businesses each gets two permits and each resident gets one, that makes thirteen vehicles. Thirteen into five won't go, never mind any pay-and-display vehicles.

Let's face it. The scheme will affect businesses, cause a lot of problems for residents without solving any and will create problems in the adjacent uncontrolled areas. It is just a moneymaking scheme for the council.

-Mike Poole, Hove