I WRITE in response to Mr Alan Massey’s letter in the Guardian last week about pavement obstruction.

I object to having my car photographed and placed in the paper. It has road tax on it and insurance, there is no parking restriction on this part of Queensgate.

I don’t know if Mr Massey lives in Queensgate. I have lived here for 36 years and over a period of time people have moved in with more than one car and they don’t use their driveways properly.

On Friday, the day the photo was taken, we were due a dustbin collection. As people know, we have to put our bins on the footpaths, which will obstruct them.

Does Mr Massey know if the cars belong to the residents? No. As we have people leaving their cars when going into the park to walk dogs, visiting the infirmary so they don’t have to pay parking charges.

The car in the picture was mine and there was a reason it was parked there.

I was taking my father-in-law, who is disabled, to hospital in Manchester.

I had left my driveway free for him to drive in and park his car off the road for the day, also I didn’t want to get blocked in by the binmen.

Anybody looking at the photo will see there was enough room to get past my bins and car.

Mr Massey’s eyesight was good enough to take the photograph of my car so he could see Queensgate has two footpaths – he could have crossed and used the other side.

My husband and I are not in the habit of leaving our cars out of our driveway as the road is too narrow, and it will cause problems for the emergency vehicles to get through.

If Mr Massey had knocked on our door I could have explained the circumstances on this occasion.

The only thing Mr Massey did was assume all cars parked in Queensgate belong to the residents – they don’t.

The council gave planning for the church to be changed to flats with allotted parking spaces but they are not always used, also Age UK are in Barber’s Lane now and if their car park is full they use our street.

If Mr Massey wants to use Barbers Lane he could use the pathway at the side of the church, which would avoid Queensgate’s parking, trees and bushes.

D Clarke Queensgate resident