YOUR article outlined a tourism project involving the creation of five “hubs” which will provide “enhanced” visitor information (aka a fancy notice board) and attract no less than 50,000 more visitors.

Apparently one of these “hubs” is going to be Daisy Meadow car park in Heybridge Basin.

Is Maldon District Council aware that Daisy Meadow car park is already regularly crammed full, year round?

This is the very same car park the council removed the toilets from – so visitors can come to read but not to pee!

Any attempt to attract even more visitors and direct them to park in Daisy Meadow is insane.

Typically visitors end up driving round and round the car park, then on realising that it is in fact full, decide to park anywhere they can; blocking access for local residents and other users, entirely blocking the recycling points, along the grass bank of a drainage ditch which is a local flood defence and so on.

This often leads to angry exchanges as they go head to head, fighting to squeeze into more and more unacceptable gaps regardless of the consequences.

At peak times it’s a noisy, chaotic free for all.

The road system is already creaking under the strain of all the extra traffic from developments permitted by the council without any ade- quate additional infrastructure.

Visitors are unlikely to return if they get stuck in traffic jams or are unable to park, but of course existing residents just have suffer this on a daily basis.

Hopefully you get the picture Maldon District Council – get real!

Sarah Everiss

Chapel Lane Heybridge Basin