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Councillors must care about our city
4:01pm Wednesday 1st July 2009
Sir — I was interested in your front-page article on the threat to Winchester’s architectural heritage and on Michael Le Brocq’s comments on the failure of politicians and planners to listen to their electorate.
Comments (1)City ‘not shying away’ from heritage and conservation duties
4:03pm Wednesday 1st July 2009
Sir: Your front-page report last week highlighted the threat to Britain’s historic street scenes and townscapes from ‘“clutter” and unsympathetic building alterations.
City council being less than homnest
3:58pm Wednesday 1st July 2009
SIR: — Gillian Shevlin’s suggestion (June 25) that Bushfield is a better site for development than Barton Farm is an understandable if misguided reaction to Steve Melligan’s earlier assertion that Bushfield Camp is an eyesore.
The cluttering-up of Winchester
3:57pm Wednesday 1st July 2009
SIR — Thanks for giving the English Heritage report on Winchester such prominence. The references to street clutter had particular resonance for our group, which is campaigning for making the Winchester street scene less shabby and more cared for, particularly in the historic centre.
Despite people’s fury, it seems planners won’t be moved
4:03pm Wednesday 24th June 2009
SIR — Whilst it triggered a sigh, it came as no great surprise to read David Atwell’s letter (Chronicle, June 11) advocating the Barton Farm proposals.
Why no protest over southern P-R?
3:57pm Wednesday 24th June 2009
SIR — Another lunacy to rival the Twyford cutting.
Is common sense too much to ask?
4:00pm Wednesday 24th June 2009
SIR — What is it like to walk about easily and free from pain? I have forgotten. I can’t even imagine it.
Barton Farm won’t solve shortage
3:11pm Wednesday 17th June 2009
SIR — David Atwell (Chronicle letters, June 11) is totally wrong to say Barton Farm will solve a property shortage in Winchester.
Red rag to a bull
3:11pm Wednesday 17th June 2009
SIR — It was very interesting to see the carefully chosen spot on Bushfield Camp that the Church Commissioners chose for their photograph.
Follow Magdalen Hill Down example
3:13pm Wednesday 17th June 2009
SIR — I hope Mr Melligan’s photo (Chronicle letters, June 11) of an abandoned car and skeletal building will not seduce your readers from the important truth that the old camp site is a vital part of the proposed country park. Had Mr Melligan wished to put an objective case unbiased by the Church Commissioner’s financial interest, he would also have presented to your readers a photograph of the wildflowers and lepidoptera which beautify the old camp site, but which are absent from the adjoining arable land.
Brave strategic decision
3:14pm Wednesday 17th June 2009
SIR — Notwithstanding Barbara Guthrie’s clarification that the Bushfield Campaign Group sees the proposed ‘knowledge park’ as “the least worst option” as opposed to offering outright support, the point made by Steve Melligan for the Church Commissioners is important (Chronicle letters, June 11).
Replacing a temporary eyesore with a permanent one
3:15pm Wednesday 17th June 2009
SIR — The courage of the Church Commissioners in highlighting the disgraceful state of some of the land they own at Bushfield Down, particularly the former army camp area, is admirable (Chronicle letters, June 4).
Greed endemic for some MPs
3:03pm Wednesday 17th June 2009
SIR — Mark Oaten, regretfully still our MP, has chosen to brand as racist and ignorant, the thousand-plus voters from the area, who voted BNP in the recent European election (Chronicle, June 11).
Unsightly building an inconvenience
3:04pm Wednesday 17th June 2009
SIR — One can only wonder what the Mayor of Winchester’s thoughts were when he found a gents lavatory actually attached to the sidewall of Abbey House, his elegant official residence, backing onto The Broadway.
Different degrees of disability
3:05pm Wednesday 17th June 2009
SIR — I was delighted to read (Chronicle letters, June 6) that Cllr Jackie Porter is lobbying to get the disabled parking spaces restored in the High Street.
Why restrict disabled parking?
3:07pm Wednesday 17th June 2009
SIR — My elderly mother rarely goes into Winchester now, but will only go when I take her in my car.
Housing numbers are meaningless
3:10pm Wednesday 17th June 2009
SIR — The problems facing housing policy in Winchester are rather more complex than David Atwell (Chronicle letters June 11) suggests.
Restore these disabled spaces
9:42am Thursday 11th June 2009
SIR — I am writing in support of a call on your letters page last week, not only to restore the disabled parking spaces in Winchester High Street, but also to make parking available there all day for members of the public who have a blue badge.
New jobs would be at expense of others
9:43am Thursday 11th June 2009
SIR — It is time that the falsehood uttered by Sainsbury’s (and similar supermarket developers) regarding the alleged employment benefit from their proposals is subjected to careful examination and, I would suggest, debunked.
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