Sir,

My wife Lesley has been disabled for three years, not long for some people, but long enough to know the problems associated with parking in Tenby.

For instance, cars without disabled badges parking in designated disabled spaces and cars frequently parked in front of the 'drop' kerbs along our pavements - do people not see that as a problem? We often have to struggle to find a drop kerb just so we can cross the road.

One time I parked in a disabled bay on the Esplanade. Together with my wife, who is wheelchair bound, we went down past the bowling green entrance, and there was a van parked in front of the drop kerb. I asked the owner to move it so we could get past, which he eventually did, but then reversed it back to the same place once we had left.

Having received grief over this, I decided to ring the police. The answer I received was "If we have a policeman or traffic warden available we will send them." Two hours later, we went back and the van was still blocking the way. Is this not a problem?

I have also told traffic wardens about the drop kerbs and the disabled bays by Londis, but they just cannot be bothered. Where do they expect us to park if half-a-dozen motorbikes or even sometimes a bus are parked in the allocated disabled bays?

How are we expected to park in the correct place, when we ask for cars blocking our spaces to be moved, but we get ignored?

Another way to reduce the number of 'parking' bays for the disabled: Why are there so many residential parking bays kept for locals, when between the hours of 9 am and 5 pm, Monday to Friday, they are free as the locals have gone to work? Why can't these become disabled parking spaces between these hours? Because as you should appreciate, when you're disabled, it is not easy getting from A-B.

If we had the use of our designated disabled parking and the drop kerbs, then blue badge holders would have somewhere to park, and wouldn't have to be 'the worst offenders when it comes to illegal parking' which is causing this trouble for the people who can walk.

John Rees,

Tenby.