HOW long does it take to change a few white lines at Sainsbury’s Poole disabled car park area.

Due to my correspondence with Poole council (May 31) and Sainsbury’s (June 1), they both agreed (letter from council June 15), five extra spaces should be allowed.

When nothing changed by September, they phoned to say Sainsbury’s were the problem.

I wrote to Sainsbury’s head office who replied (letter September 24), that four spaces would be allowed.

Five years ago, after my wife received a blue badge due to walking difficulties with arthritis, having to wait for disabled spaces at Sainsbury’s when we have passed hundreds of vacant normal spaces available, seemed wrong.

So I wrote to them requesting more disabled spaces.

We had no reply, so since then we decided to park quite legally on double yellow lines in a nearby road. But, as time has made walking more difficult, I thought it was time to try to make them change, not just for us but for all disabled, thereby the letters above.

A few days ago (November 6), walking past the disabled bay there were three cars waiting for a space.

A fourth came in, did a three-point turn, probably in disgust and went back to find a normal space.

This is just not good enough.

My wife only walks with my help as she finds the bumps on the cobbles in the High Street jars her frail coccyx in her wheel chair.

KEN ADAMS, Glen Road, Parkstone, Poole