Believe me they are not.
I was a bus driver for many years and I can assure you that parking regulations in this town have never been enforced. I still have letters written to this newspaper more than 20 years ago complaining about non enforcement of parking and traffic regulations, double parking in Seaside, the daily traffic chaos in Albert Parade caused by illegal parking, and the total disregard of any restrictions in Meads Street. Decades later all these things still go on.
Of course the blame for this general culture rests fairly and squarely with the police. In the days of the County Borough nobody wanted to upset hoteliers or visitors, so nothing was ever enforced. When traffic wardens first appeared in 1971, along with controlled parking, matters hardly improved, the one sure place to find a warden being the busman's canteen in the old Southdown bus station in Pevensey Road. Enforcement of parking and traffic regulations was miniscule, and so it has continued. Eventually the police-controlled traffic wardens in Eastbourne were run down to almost nothing, so small wonder things ended up the way they did.
Every year I see the police precept on my council tax go up, usually well above the rate of inflation, yet the police have for many years not performed this part of their duties. Can someone tell me how police can unilaterally decide not to enforce the law in Eastbourne, but do so in Bexhill?
The pay-to-park scheme, which is now taking on comical shades reminiscent of the old Ealing film Passport to Pimlico, would be quite funny were it not for the amount of council tax payers' money poured down the drain, and the ongoing parking chaos.
Rightly or wrongly, democracy spoke when the Conservative administration of the borough was slung out, mostly on the issue of pay-to-park.
I do not see why I should have to pay twice to have the law enforced, once in my council tax and again by having to pay to park. ESCC has admitted the pay-to-park scheme will be broadly revenue neutral. The parking scheme in Lewes has been disastrous for commerce, yet ESCC still pursue the matter. There are none so blind as those who do not wish to see.
Yes, parking regulations should be enforced, why can't the people we already pay do the job – the police – do it?
M.K.Isaacs, Broomfield Street, Old Town.

Having attended the county council's cabinet meeting on July 8, to see what effect Eastbourne's 10,000-plus objections would have on the pay-to-park negotiations, I was shocked to have to sit through hours of self applause and mutual backslapping that occurred on other subjects prior to Eastbourne's problem.
Before our own case came before the 'court', the chief 'judge' (chairman) excused himself with the comment 'Best of luck with item 16' and left.
After which Eastbourne's objections were thrown aside with the comment, they are irrelevant because they don't live in the very centre of town.
Questions posed by EBC went unanswered, and all sensible proposals for the better running of a cheaper solution to the illegal parking problems were also ignored.
The serious points are that
1. People who live and work in Eastbourne will not be able to do so.
2. Consequently shops, offices and businesses will no longer be able to carry on trading.
3. An already fragile employment town will become and unemployment statistic of very high proportion.
4. Visitors to Eastbourne will no longer arrive.
5. NCP wardens will patrol the empty streets of ghost town Eastbourne, just like Lewes is becoming.
Well done county council if that is your target, or are you so short sighted you cannot see further than very expensive machinery and NCP footpads?.
J Porter, Culver Close, Eastbourne

Eastbourne was the first seaside resort I saw, shortly after the war. I remember the excitement of travelling from the Old Town on a Tamplins Ale bus and seeing the sea for the first time.
I continued having holidays in Eastbourne over a number of years with my parents.
As I have become older, I travel down at weekends by car. Imagine my horror on buying the Herald to find you are going to install parking meters virtually everywhere.
On Sunday, when I visited in an average-sized car, it cost me £10 in petrol from Maidstone. The three of us contributed in the region of £300 to Eastbourne's economy. If we are going to incur parking charges on top of this we shall have to consider going elswhere.
P.W.Hooker, Belmore Road, Yalding, Kent.