SIR — Can I ask what you actually have to do to get permission to bring a car on to Watchet Esplanade since the new draconian non-parking regulations came into force at the beginning of the year?

Certainly not run a business on The Esplanade for the past 12 years or own a modest vehicle which is occasionally needed to move things to and from the office.

Eight months of asking for vehicular access to my office have only resulted in a demand for £20 for a key which has never arrived and an £84 fine for illegal parking - rescinded because the penalty notice was filled in wrongly.

Apparently what you do need, to be allowed on the hallowed ground, is a veteran tractor, a wood-burning pizza van, a mobile trampoline, a portable bouncy castle, a hot-dog stall, a racing wheelbarrow, a beer lorry or a cart from which to sell the Big Issue. They're all regularly on The Esplanade with no bother.

Perhaps a helicopter pad on the roof of the Esplanade Club could be the answer to my problem.

Tony James,

The Esplanade,

Watchet.