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Sirs I recently emailed the Chair of Marlborough Town Council’s Planning Committee regarding their decision to raise no objection to this application. His prompt reply mentioned that ‘To raise an objection there has to be a valid reason under planning regulations or a clear violation of a policy within Wiltshire Council’s Core Strategy’. Since many …
Poulton Mill Equine Clinic Planning Decision by Town Council – Letter from Peter TurveyRead More
OPEN LETTER TO DANNY KRUGER M.P. Dear Danny Kruger marlborough.news has brought us the desperately sad and appalling announcement that The Enablement Hub (formerly the New Road Day Centre) is having to close. This month it lost half its Wiltshire Council funding and it faced losing the other half in April 2023. As yet no …
The Enablement Hub closure: open letter to Devizes MP Danny Kruger from Tony MillettRead More
Sirs, Further to the correspondence opposing the awful plans put forward by Forestry England on the subject of the future of Savernake Forest, and the excellent discussion and decision by the Town Council to oppose the plans, I note that the Mission Statement by the Forestry Commission, of which Forestry England is a branch (get …
Sirs, Writing as a former resident of Marlborough I wholeheartedly agree with the sentiments expressed by both Nick Maurice & The Earl of Cardigan opposing such a commercial approach to this shared forest landscape. I was appalled to read the proposal from the Forestry Commission to corral Savernake Forest visitors to a Postern Hill visitor …
The future of Savernake Forest – letter from Peter CairnsRead More
Sirs, The excellent response by Neil Goodwin and the report in this week’s Wiltshire Gazette and Herald on the awful plans put forward by the Forestry Commission to limit visitors access to Savernake Forest provoke further comments. Having walked in Savernake Forest for the past 70 years and indeed, having just returned from my almost …
The future of Savernake Forest – letter from Nick MauriceRead More
Sirs, Councillor Jane Davies letter about Wiltshire Council’s plans to alter the way Marlborough’s Jubilee Centre and The Enablement Hub (formerly the New Road Centre) are funded, requires a response – however belated. Her letter contains some strange assertions. First, she refers to them all as ‘clubs’ (even ‘wonderful clubs’) – as though they were …
Dear Sir I have just read your story on Public Access to Savernake Forest. I would just like to place on record the fact that I am firmly opposed to any plan to effectively ban the Public from this Forest, corralling them into a Forestry Commission (pay) Car Park on Postern Hill instead. Yours sincerely …
Savernake car ban – letter from The Earl of CardiganRead More
Sirs, I have lived in The Priory for 6 years and have not had not heard anything anti social. Kids will be kids, do you not remember what it was like to be young. Yours, Leon RichardsonMarlborough
Dear Daniel Kruger, Do you have any Ukrainians living in your constituency? I ask because we would like to be considered as a household that would welcome a refugee family to stay with us. It would be good to find people who speak the Ukrainian language. We are ashamed that the UK government is dragging its …
Open letter to Danny Kruger regarding Ukranian refugees, from Bill YatesRead More
Sirs, Further to your recent article explaining the excellent work done by the Jubilee Club for older members of our community and by The Enablement Hub for those with learning disabilities in Marlborough, I thought it might be helpful to provide more detailed context about the decisions made by Wiltshire Council. The grant system has …
Letter re. The Jubilee Centre funding – from Wiltshire Councillor Jane DaviesRead More
Sirs, With reference to Dr Maurice’s letter, it is somewhat ironic that councils are cutting funding to the Jubilee Centre but spending on the Queen’s jubilee celebrations. Mis-placed priorities, I would suggest. I am sure if someone asked Her Majesty that she would give them a very straight reply on what they should be spending …
Response to Dr Nick Maurice’s letter re. The Jubilee Centre – from Barry McGowanRead More
Sirs, The letter from Tony Millett (1 February) “Wiltshire Council’s cuts to Day Centres and Luncheon Clubs”, rightly deploring cuts to services such as The New Road and Jubilee Centres and the inequality of spending in Marlborough as compared to other communities in Wiltshire, raises a number of questions. One cannot help wondering whether there …
