BURY MBC has announced its intension to increase parking fees for pay and display car parks and on-street parking by an average of 20 per cent.

This is on top of a similar rise in April last year and follows news that the parking services section, who manage car parking and parking enforcement, made a healthy surplus for the year 2003-4.

I have a particular interest in this matter, having won an appeal victory over invalid wording on PCNs (something which is subject to a court challenge by the council). Obviously they see the motorist as an endless source of extra revenue and in the light of the surplus generated by parking services this increase cannot be justified

ROGER MACARTHUR,

Radcliffe.