The Argus reported (December 17) that Brighton and Hove City Council will no longer issue parking waivers to builders and other tradespeople working in Zone N, though these waivers formed part of the scheme when introduced a few months ago.

A council spokesman is quoted as saying, "We have had a lot of complaints from residents in Norton Road about parking on double yellows" by waiver-holders.

This is interesting because on September 25, Peter Bloxham, team leader at the Council for Traffic Management wrote to me that "it has been agreed that the council will review the decriminalised parking scheme, which includes central Hove, after its first six months of operation.

It is necessary to wait for this period to enable the operation of the scheme from both the operator's and users' aspect to settle down".

So my application for a resident's parking permit would have to wait on this forthcoming review since a change in the scheme would (according to Mr Bloxham) be required to include my home within it.

Now I read that the residents of Norton Road have been able to break through this six-month barrier and achieve a change in the operation of the Zone N scheme.

How did they do it? Information, please.

-Trevor Pateman, Dolphin Court, Hove