In this densly populated city, the green lung that is Southsea Common is of paramount importance to residents and visitors alike. It is a recreation area,a viewing platform for the Solent but most crucially for a lot of residents of the city it is their back garden. It is time Portsmouth City Council looked carefully at their parking arrangements and stopped encroaching on this listed open space that is highly valued by our community. Visitors and residents don\'t come here to enjoy a car park but to have a picnic fly a kite,kick a ball around or just relax. So we hope you will add your name to our petition to keep cars and parking meters off our common.