I WRITE regarding the letter from Darren Steadman in which he states that vehicles are ‘contaminating the local neighbourhood in Kidderminster’ and that he is the co-owner of two commercial vehicles in James Road, Kidderminster.

It was pleasing to read that they have searched overnight parking for their vehicles with local businesses, albeit unsuccessfully due to the costs and I noted Mr Steadman’s comments about the costs of purchasing or renting a unit and of the fine line between making a profit or loss.

But the latter is the same for the owners of houses which cost around £200,000 except that the parking of commercial vehicles on the neighbourhood’s roads, especially when laden with rubbish makes a fine line, a downhill slope.

Mr Steadman states that one of the vehicles is parked outside the property where he lives in James Road and the other behind a 15ft high hedge (actually only 8ft high). But why not park the second vehicle outside where its driver lives instead of near the junction of James Road with Hurcott Road, where it forces vehicles driving past it onto the path of oncoming vehicles entering James Road; an accident waiting to happen.

There have already been several close calls as a number of people have witnessed and with regard to Mr Steadman’s reference to ‘the rat run from the Birmingham Road, the driving school cars using the area and the parking on double yellow lines on and around the shop’, the vehicles concerned do not pose an unnecessary health, fire, and/or driving hazard all day and/or all night.

DAVID GUEST Hurcott Road Kidderminster