NOW that the NHS Trust at Arrowe Park Hospital has been granted permission to charge for car parking facilities, the parking situation on the housing estate opposite the hospital, and the main road outside the hospital, are going to become even more intolerable.

Quite apart from the fact that the residents cannot get into their own driveways, or even get on to the estate at times, do the people who abandon their cars in these roads ever consider the fact that they are blocking the roads and access to the three infant schools (one of them for disabled children) which may, one day, need one of the emergency services?

The vehicles would be unable to get through Pool Lane and now Fleetcroft Road (yes, these motorists are claiming more and more of the roads, usually for the whole day).

One day there is going to be a very serious accident - let us hope it does not include any of the children from one of these three schools.

Not only do the cars park on both sides of the roads, but they park up to the edge of the side road. In order to get into the road, you have to move into the centre to see if it is safe to move out - by this time any oncoming vehicles are screeching to a halt.

I am in constant touch with Stephen Hesford MP to try to enforce the 'residents only' parking restriction (yes, there are parking restriction notices).

Let us hope that with the imminent elections, one of the parties will listen and gain some votes.

Mrs P.A. Lamb,

Archers Way,

Upton.