Dear Editor,

We took our grandchildren swimming during the half-tem holidays and unfortunately lost track of the time spent in the pool and overstayed our parking time by less than a quarter of an hour in the Redmeadow car park.

Upon returning to the car we found that beautiful yellow pouch on our windscreen notifying us of our misdemeanour and consequent fine which ended our pleasant outing to the pool on a rather sour note.

I appreciate that the people employed to enforce parking regulations have a job to do, and just wondered, how zealous were they enforcing the parking rules when the ‘travellers’ visited the town and stayed in the car park, taking up five spaces each with their caravans parked sideways plus towing vehicles and generators (‘Redmeadow car park full again’ - Ross Gazette article, October 28th, page 7). Were they checked that the appropriate number of tickets for the spaces used?

Much easier to issue £50 fines for overstaying by less than a quarter of an hour to private cars, on a week-end, in the visitor-friendly town of Ross-on-Wye.

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