Bullheaded over Angus parking

Madam, – It will take 10 years for Angus Council to break even with car parking charges yet they declined to comment. Why?

Let’s make it clear they have said to the communities of Angus, parking charges are here to stay and we will not budge.

Have you ever known such a bullheaded stance that has affected so many businesses and shoppers alike.

Witnessing businesses go bust and shop owners

deprived of a livelihood is not the actions of a caring council.

On the contrary, it’s an action of total irresponsibility.

After a disastrous six months we had hoped common sense would prevail, but sadly not.

The loss of rates with shop closures, the loss of tax from incomes, the once hard working shop keepers now on the dole.

Tell me Angus Council, where is the economic sense?

The carnage left behind, not to mention the waste of our money on a fruitless, harmful, reckless obsession, can

only be described as appalling.

I am not a shop owner but a shopper who enjoys shopping in Angus towns at least while they remain before being destroyed. Joe Boland.

1 Westbank Gardens, Westmuir, Angus.