Dear Editor

There are no superlatives suitably strong enough to express the disgust at wasting £67,000 on a private consultancy firm for a review on car parking charges (Western Telegraph, November 18th).

What happened to buying local produce and supporting local businesses and firms?

Ironically this review was commissioned in 2007 and is irrelevant during the effects of the economic recession climate we experience today.

What was the problem with using the council’s own consultants, as I presume that’s what they are paid for? It may have been construed that the report would have been biased, but what was in any description ‘fair’ in justifying this not small amount of money for such a review?

Imagine what benefits this large sum of cash could have been used more wisely for.

Tim McMahon
36 Military Road,
Pennar.