There will be plenty of rejoicing in Bradford over the news that Excel Parking Services, which polices the Forster Square Retail Park, is to review the tickets it has issued to motorists to identify those who have been unjustly fined.

There was understandable outrage last month when a motorist was given a £40 ticket after an attendant noticed him walking off the Forster Square site to run another errand elsewhere in the city centre. The company countered by declaring that people who park on the retail park should shop exclusively at its businesses.

That, it now transpires, is not the case. Apparently when the retail park was proposed, a clause was inserted in the planning permission to the effect that those who left their vehicles there could shop wherever they wanted in the city centre as long as they returned within two hours.

That is the way it should be. The clause made a great deal of sense, not least as far as Bradford retailing is concerned. Although our shops are spread over a relatively wide area, they are easily accessible from each other - including the Forster Square Retail Park, which offers access to both the top end of town via School Street and the lower area via the bottom end of Cheapside.

Bradford's shopping experience needs to be viewed as a whole, not as separate, exclusive zones. In that context, the right to park at Forster Square and visit businesses elsewhere in addition to those on the site is vital.