It is totally incorrect for The Argus to claim on its front page (August 22) that Brighton and Hove City Council has admitted all the parking penalty charge notices it has issued since 2001 are "invalid", "flawed" or "illegal".

At no time has the wording of our penalty charge notices been deemed by the Parking Adjudicator to be legally flawed.

Earlier this month, following a judicial review of a case in the London Borough of Barnet, the law was clarified that a penalty charge notice had to display the date of its issue separately from the date of contravention.

Parking Adjudicators have already considered and rejected bids to reopen previously closed cases on the dating issue.Thanks to excellent work by our parking and legal teams we anticipated this change in the law and changed our systems more than a year ago to include both dates.

The result is that Brighton and Hove is hardly going to be affected by the change.

It is only likely to apply to about 300 unpaid penalty charge notices in total, dating from before July 2005 when we started putting both dates on.

This is in the context of issuing about 700,000 since the council took control of parking enforcement in 2001.

We have consistently advised Glowzone to take its complaints to the National Parking Adjudication Service if they are unhappy with how we have dealt with them. We are very surprised that it has so far refused to do so.

The Barnet ruling does mean we are not going to pursue nine penalty charge notices we issued to Glowzone vehicles prior to July 2005 that have still not been paid.

But we are still pursuing Glowzone for the large number of tickets we have issued its vehicles since July 2005.

If it continues to refuse to pay we will take whatever action is necessary to make it do so.