Not sure about your point, beardy. On one hand you're having a go at the council for being money-grabbers, then you suggest phone parking, meters and residents' permits to replace free parking in and around LL. If you've ever lived in a permit zone, you'll appreciate that they're just another excuse to coin it, through the enforcement of unintentional infringements, like having one wheel over the white line or a permit placed in the wrong part of the windscreen.