NOW that the Cotswold District Council have effectively barred the disabled and the older generation from shopping in Cirencester and the younger generation are shopping online, how are the shopkeepers and other businesses expected to survive? Many people agree that Cirencester has taken on the appearance of a ghost town and many are not returning. How sad.

Without doubt, it has proved to be the most effective way of completely killing off what was a thriving Cotswold market town, which people from home and abroad enjoyed visiting.

Surely the state of the roads in the area and the provision of better car parking should have been given priority long before this revolutionary change was ever planned?

Is The Standard prepared to let us know how many letters of this nature they have received and is the Cotswold District Council ever going to admit what a colossal mistake they have made?

M MINETT 
Fairford 

Editor’s note: In response to M Minett, The Standard does receive many letters relating to town centre planning and parking problems. Within the last three weeks, around half a dozen have arrived. We have been publishing them in our paper and online as they arrive.