SO, AFTER four years of deliberations, thousands and thousands spent on consultants, our latest bunch of intelligent councillors have come up with a real brainwave, satisfying the current lack of existing facilities: a café.

When they wake up from their slumbers, may I gently point out to them that within 200 yards of the museum, there are, currently, 17 places where you can get a cup of coffee, if you include Waitrose.

Instead of an Old-Time Music Hall, we are going to get a Magic Lantern Show, now that is real progress!

Thank goodness that they are not being asked to revamp a brewery.

Oh, the stage is to be removed to “another place”, plus lowering the ceiling because of poor acoustics – perhaps this is due to the amount of hot air that seems to be coming from the Guildhall at present.

I have never been to a wedding so far where it has been necessary to have tiered seating – so difficult for eating – or is it for friends to cheer in the bride?

What Abingdon is lacking at the moment is a cinema. Didcot, smaller than Abingdon, has a very successful one. Oxford has several.

Having already rejected commercial bidders, due to fears over a budget “overrun”, how much money have the councillors wasted over payment to consultants, again and again.

My advice, shared by many, is that they persuade the owners of the remaining double-storey, double unit in the precinct to submit plans for a cinema, right in the centre of town. It would revitalise the town centre in the evening; at present it is DEAD.

For goodness sake, produce something that people want.

Don’t try to compete with facilities that are already there and, no doubt, cheaper than the council will charge.

Brian Eastoe
Sutton Wick Lane
Drayton