THE only two remaining parent and child parking spaces at Winchester's River Park Leisure Centre have now been removed, in favour of more disabled spaces.

While never demeaning the virtue of disabled parking spaces, this leisure centre and surrounding parkland must have the only car park in Hampshire without such facilities.

Whoever made this decision obviously has no regard for families with small children, and renders the continuance of having to squeeze children in and out of cars within the tight standard parking spaces.

ROBERT HODGKINSON, Winchester.