THOUGH I am not usually in the habit of siding with Lib-Dem policies I must admit that Councillor David Harrison is correct (Letters July 24) concerning the car park in Rumbridge Street in Totton and the fact that it now stands half empty.

Councillor Chris Lagdon (Conservative) on the other hand (Letters, July 30) does himself and his party no favours in his explanation regardless of the fact that he is trying to balance the books, that it has forced free parkers into other pay parks in the High Street and Window Road.

Whatever the situation in Totton where car parking is concerned, they are not alone with problems between greedy councils and the general public.

There is no excuse whatever for any parking space to remain empty simply because the local council in its pig-headedness is hell bent in extracting the last pound out of the public purses.

L A O’BEE, Southampton .