Right now, all the experts are saying that car parking charges are killing the High Street and urging councils to reconsider their charges if they want to save their towns.

The Forest of Dean District Council is ignoring this advice and acting with stupidity. Those councillors who voted for the introduction of parking charges will kill our lovely little towns.

Shouldn't these councillors be looking to regenerate our towns rather than degenerate them!

– Chris Hamilton Smith, Clearwell.