RAY BRIDGES, of Clarence Street, Dartmouth, writes: In last week's Chronicle a small but important news item was published under the ­headline 'Camper vans call'. It seems that 'Resident Brian Harriss' (sic) wants overnight parking spaces for mobile homes in the centre of Dartmouth. Where is the ­evidence that supports his assumption that they would 'bring more trade into the town'? At a time when almost every town in the country is pedestrianising their centres to become more people-friendly and boosting trade by getting ­vehicles out of their towns and into park-and-ride schemes, the last thing Dartmouth needs is a proposal to clog up the town with more unsightly vehicles. Dartmouth has a different kind of parking problem during October to April. Unlimited and free parking for six months allows vehicles such as mobile homes, trucks and cars to be left indefinitely along the embankment. Because of this, local residents in the surrounding villages who normally come to Dartmouth to shop during the summer months find it more difficult to park in the winter than the summer. There is a partial solution, which is to have a maximum 12-hours stay – no return ­within 12 hours on the October to May parking sites (including the embankment) in Dartmouth. This would ­prevent long-term parking of empty vehicles in the town, which cannot be good for trade, but allow shopkeepers, ­businesses and their staff to park free all day.