I MUST congratulate the King’s Head on a final (we hope) opening date, after seven years under Wildmoor’s control it is a miracle. Let’s hope it stays open for seven years or more.

So now what about the Corn Hall? The place that used to be a focal point for Cirencester’s live music scene, now it lays empty every night, soulless and forgotten, with planning permission for toilets only recently applied for. Even our council does not seem bothered to enforce the agreement that live music should continue there.

This leads me to the cinema complex, our planning committee, distracted by this promise of a cinema waved before them, let slip by the massive accommodation block that eventually, I am sure will be available for anyone to rent, whatever it says on the planning. With a £1.3 million complex being built in Swindon, a recently completed complex in Gloucester, plus the one in Cheltenham, what cinema chain in their right mind is going to pay out to open in Cirencester?

I would challenge Wildmoor and the council (as it is surely a question any sensible councillor should have asked) what company has committed to open there once it is built, I don’t mean “shown an interest”, that means nothing, a concrete contract?

It just means that if built we will probably end up with another empty, unused building, while Wildmoor get their accommodation built.

PAUL BLANNIN,

Cirencester