Abingdon, Didcot, Wantage, Wallingford news, sport and leisure from the Herald newspaper

Town council's action is a 'disgrace'

9:00am Wednesday 10th March 2010

Sir, The high-handed action by Didcot Town Council in making the CAB homeless apparently without consultation or due warning is an absolute disgrace as well as being deeply discourteous.

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Great concern

9:00am Wednesday 10th March 2010

Sir, It was with great concern and disappointment that I read your front-page article, No room for CAB in new civic hall (Didcot Herald, March 3).

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'Cuckoo'

9:00am Wednesday 10th March 2010

Sir, The article on the front page of last week’s Didcot Herald was not entirely correct. It stated the CAB had been housed in the Civic Hall since it was built. This is not so.

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Questionable

9:00am Wednesday 10th March 2010

Sir, I notice in the news that services such as libraries and nurseries face cuts as councils grapple with the impact of the recession.

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Sir, Your report ‘Town gets blueprint for future’ in last week’s Herald reads like a fairy story, describing, as it does, the ancient town of Wallingford rising from the depths of some consultant’s imagination to be reincarnated as a modern-day Shangri-La by the Thames.

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Matter of time

9:00am Wednesday 10th March 2010

Sir, I felt it necessary to write as I feel it is a matter of time before a child is injured, or worse, outside Wantage C of E Primary School in Newbury Street.

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Clarify

9:00am Wednesday 10th March 2010

Sir, I would like to clarify the situation regarding the Friday night sessions held at the Sweatbox youth centre in Wantage.

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Why not have public representation?

9:00am Wednesday 3rd March 2010

Sir, With the proposed setting up of a rival group to Abingdon Chamber of Commerce (Herald, February 3) has none of these groups, including the councils, considered inviting representation from the largest group of the interested parties, the customers, the punters, the people of Abingdon and surrounds, call them what you will: in other words, the people it is hoped will be the most affected by any changes to the town centre.

'Bread basket'

9:00am Wednesday 3rd March 2010

Sir, Re: Wallingford Herald, February 17, headlined ‘Unite call to fight 750 homes bid’. What a wonderful word — unite — has been chosen in support of the mayor’s comments. The town has the full co-operation of her councillors on these planning applications, possibly, the most important decisions Wallingford-ians will ever make.

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Search on

9:00am Wednesday 3rd March 2010

Sir, It would seem that by adding a previously discounted site for proposed new homes in Wallingford, the search by SODC is now on (at taxpayers’ expense) for the path of least resistance to satisfy imposed central Government targets. Consider also the latest proposition for gravel extraction taking place in such close proximity of the town in conjunction with housebuilding. From ‘market town’ to ‘mining town’ with the associated risks that come with such activity thrown in for good measure.