WELL, it looks as though Calderdale Council and its highly paid experts have got it wrong yet again.

This time it's over car parking, or, to be more correct, the lack of use of paid-for parking facilities that is giving the council a headache.

You report ("Parking fiasco!", Courier, February 5) a massive £120,000 shortfall in receipts and, guess what, the answer from this load of Dick Turpins is: that they can't rule out increases in charges.

I might have guessed that they could not come up with something more original; that would be asking too much.

So what do we get? The same old answer: put up the charges.
Not only do we pay through the nose for petrol, car insurance (for those of us who pay it!) road fund licence and so on, we now have to face even greater charges to park in Calderdale. In essence we are paying for the mistakes of others – again!

Well here is a suggestion that might help rake in a few quid.

Let's get rid of one or two of the overpaid experts who just seem to cost more money than either they generate or, more to the point, than they are actually worth.

One thing is for sure: this council and its so-called team of experts are costing the people of Halifax and district a high price and to be perfectly truthful I am sick of it.

Perhaps when a potential expert is sought for employment by this council someone might bother to find out if he or she is capable of actually doing the job at the point of interview and not just employ a candidate who happens to hold a degree in underwater hang gliding or whatever.

For it would appear that we have those in positions of standing and expertise who would be better employed by someone else, thus relieving local tax-payers of a great responsibility.

Yours in total disgust
Brian T. Overbury-Crowther