Infrastructure

THE comments of JTP although fluent, are somewhat lacking in substance and do not tell the public very much about the development, although at this point it is possibly difficult to be more specific.

There is little mention made of the HUGH impact this will have on the existing Roman town and little about infrastructure or landscaping, both of which are of paramount importance.

Schools, doctors transport, parking – already a huge problem in Cirencester.

The bus service to ‘out of town’ areas has already been savagely cut by GCC – if there was an efficient service we would not see as we do now, so many cars desperately trying to park.

One would like to see a development which addresses these problems and does not visually hark back to the past, but looks forward to the future and plans for it.

A development which, as I have said before, that we can be proud of, that maybe leads the way in design and planning and does not just ‘toe the line’ but is something that Cirencester DESERVES.

Something eye-catching and not only ‘appealing to the people who will want to live there ,and in that way it will be a genuine ‘legacy’.

Eye-catching or eye-sore?

Brilliant or banal? – it is in your hands collectively BDL, JTP, and CDC or in plain English, Bathurst Development Ltd, JTP Architects and Cotswold District Council.

If JTP deliver half of what they are saying it could be good, but can the public be kept informed as the design progresses?

Let us have this scheme out in the open, not hidden under the carpet and produced as a ‘fait a complet’.

A model would be very helpful to enable us to see what may happen – again, landscaping, planting, trees, green open spaces all of which are the heart and lungs of any large-scale project.

After all it is we who will be left to look at it when all the dust has settled.

Diana Heywood

Daglingworth