A FORMER Winchester city councillor may have lost his place on the council but he is still pressing for action.

Ian Tait attended the town forum last Wednesday to call for greater marketing of a new statue by the Casson Block.

The work by Holger C Lönze is next to the Hampshire Chronicle office on St George’s Street.

Mr Tait said: “The signage is inadequate. Very few people know that piece of art is there. It is a remarkable piece of art and it is overlooked.”

Mr Lönze’s bronze and steel sculpture has been designed to create a link between the modernist 1960s block and the medieval architecture of Winchester Cathedral, which was once the seat of Anglo-Saxon and Norman power.

Mr Tait spoke of the success of the controversial redevelopment of the Casson Block, which saw an outdoor seating area installed but branded a ‘pollution patio’ by the Lib Dems.

Mr Tait said: “There were people critical of the Casson Block scheme.

“It has been a brilliant success and the businesses there recognise that. It’s great but I think there is more to be done.”

He also called for the disabled toilets on Middle Brook Street to be repaired and reopened.

It has been closed for several months after a drug addict was taken ill in it. “It is used regularly by drug addicts and the door needed to be broken into.”

But he said people with mobility issues should not have to suffer as a consequence.