By painting double yellow lines on many residential roads, Wiltshire Council would be penalising the residents.

They are generally not the ones leaving their cars parked on the road all day whilst they are at work.

An idea which works in other parts of the country is to make it an offence to park for one hour a day.

If car owners were to receive a ticket for parking between 3pm and 4pm, for instance, this would stop them using the roads instead of the car parks for all day parking.

Traffic wardens would only need to patrol the roads during that hour and any motorist who chanced parking all day, would get a parking ticket. This would stop them doing it again, and only inconvenience the householders for that one hour.

Alison Hicks, Stourton Park, Hilperton.