It is amazing that there is a huge drive to reduce the number of plastic bags that we are all using including councils producing free cloth bags and the government considering legislation, when there is no penalty for people driving miles to to there shopping. Hardly anybody walks to Sainsburys Bell Green and there is no charge for parking - what affect does this have on the environment and the shops in our town centre?

My recommendation - charge 50p for anybody parking at Bell Green for any length of time, use the revenues to improve the local town centres and introduce longer periods of free parking at Sainburys in Forest Hill and Perry Vale car park. People will vote with their feet and shop with them too!