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Raising short-term car park charges won’t help business

4:58pm Wednesday 20th January 2010

SIR — What Cllr Beckett doesn’t address in his response to my letter (Chronicle letters, December 31) is my suggestion that Winchester City Council will hurt shop traders by raising car park charges.

Council should also promote the social well-being of city

4:56pm Wednesday 20th January 2010

SIR — Re the traders in the unlovely Casson block on St George’s Street.

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Car-share scheme deserves praise

4:54pm Wednesday 20th January 2010

SIR — I would like to congratulate Hampshire County Council for providing an excellent carshare shuttle service for those of us stranded at the southern end of St Cross Road during the current road closure.

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Stop wasting our council tax

5:12pm Wednesday 13th January 2010

SIR — As I write, it is Tuesday morning, January 5. I have just returned from a journey into Winchester.

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Clock repairs progressing

5:11pm Wednesday 13th January 2010

SIR — I would like to reassure readers of the accuracy of my letter (Chronicle letters December 3) in which I referred to the repairs being undertaken on the High Street clock. The work was scheduled to begin yesterday (Wednesday, January 13), snow permitting, when the remains of the clock will be taken by Smiths of Derby for repair and restoration. This delicate work will take approximately five to six weeks, after which scaffolding will be erected to repair the structure of the clock armature and the face will be replaced. Hopefully by mid-March the clock will be fully restored and enhancing the High Street once more. Members of the historic environment team at Winchester City Council are always willing to deal with enquiries from members of the public, and they may be contacted using the council’s Customer Service Centre number which is 01962 840222, or by email to adavidson@Winchester.gov.uk.

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Safe pavements are surely our right

5:09pm Wednesday 13th January 2010

SIR — As chairs of Highcliffe and Winnall Community Forums respectively, we would like, through the courtesy of your columns, to say how much we agree with the criticism of the county council expressed in several of your letters recently for failing to grit so many of our pavements.

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Car parking around store a growing issue

2:10pm Friday 20th November 2009

SIR — It’s already started, with Waitrose up and running, their staff have taken to parking just inside the Fromond Road turning.

Sending out the wrong message

2:00pm Friday 20th November 2009

SIR — In its haste to tidy up Winchester, the city council has now decreed that the use of temporary roadside signs to advertise theatrical productions at Winchester’s own Theatre Royal is now forbidden.

It’s about time this clock was fixed

2:08pm Wednesday 18th November 2009

SIR — For several months, a popular landmark of the High Street has looked very sorry for itself.

Politicians to blame for traffic mess

2:00pm Friday 13th November 2009

SIR — It’s a bit rich for Cllr Lipscomb to shed tears over traffic problems around the proposed Aldi development (Chronicle, October 29).

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Too many licensed taxis doesn’t help

2:00pm Friday 13th November 2009

SIR — In reply to the the dispute over a taxi fare (Chronicle letters, October 8), it seems to me that the driver did not cover the diversion to Alresford and found that he undercharged which would have partly been his fault.

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Residents’ concerns almost irrelevant

1:50pm Friday 13th November 2009

SIR — Re the story about taxpayers having to foot the bill for the planning ‘bungle’ over Aldi (Chronicle, October 29).

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Licensing policy is clearly inadequate

2:20pm Friday 6th November 2009

SIR — Re your excellent editorial concerning the granting of a licence to sell alcohol to the BP station in St Cross Road, I would like to make the following comments.

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Surgery move favours car use

2:20pm Friday 6th November 2009

SIR — In your report (Hampshire Chronicle, October 29) it is stated that Friarsgate Practice says getting to the new surgery “could not be easier, as the building is situated on many existing bus routes”. That claim is outrageous.

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A possible vision of the future that we must not let go

2:20pm Friday 6th November 2009

SIR — During that week when the traffic lights were not working in Winchester, I shared with others a most enlightening experience.

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Student parking needs addressing

3:40pm Friday 30th October 2009

SIR — I read with considerable interest the article in the Hampshire Chronicle (October 15), regarding student parking, and one man’s three-hour crusade in the Stanmore area, as the residents in the roads around Bereweeke Avenue are afflicted in a similar manner by the students attending Peter Symonds College.

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Why do they need constant reminders?

3:40pm Friday 30th October 2009

SIR — Can anyone tell me why every year without fail we, the residents of Poles Lane, have to contact our county councillor, Charlotte Bailey, to ask her to try and get the council to clear the gulleys and gulley pots?

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No singing in the library!

3:40pm Friday 30th October 2009

SIR — This would appear to be the case with Winchester Discovery Centre. Despite four separate requests for the staff to put up a poster advertising the forthcoming production of Cavalleria Rusticana and Trial by Jury at the Theatre Royal by Winchester Operatic Society, there is still no poster on display.

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New Barton Farm layout creates more problems than it solves

3:50pm Friday 30th October 2009

SIR — Having visited the CALA Homes exhibition to see their revised plan for the proposed development at Barton Farm, I have to conclude that the new layout creates more problems than it solves.