Your letters - May 7, 2010

Roadworks impact on my business

After a very bad winter with snow and rain I was looking forward to the summer season trading in Battle.

But this has now got off to a very poor start as someone at East Sussex Highways has decided that digging up Battle High Street at the beginning of the peak period is a good idea.

The High Street is constantly gridlocked and as a trader my business is suffering as it is hard for my deliveries to park and takes an age for customers to not only park but cross the road.

Why do this work now when it creates so much disruption and hardship, why not in October or March it's just ludicrous..

I challenge East Sussex County Council to justify this and was this work essential..

andy

Y'Ore Store

High Street,Battle.

Use Lower School for Rye's young

DID anyone else's mental light bulb flash with inspiration while reading last week's report about Rye forsaking its youngsters?

Surely it is in our power to give them exactly what they want and deserve, simply by ditching the plans for a new supermarket on the Lower School site and using it instead to create a leisure/commercial complex - preferably of architectural merit that the town could be proud of - which would meet the needs of not only the young people of the town but also the whole community. How much more important would that be than merely saving a few pounds on a weekly food shop and, horror of horrors, being deprived of Sunday opening?

I envisage a selection of retail units (aimed at the younger market), cafes and eateries (possibly an ideal site for the likes of the very popular kebab take-away adjacent to Jempsons/Budgens) and, as requested by the Rye College pupils, a bowling alley, cinema and - if space allows- a roller disco. Why not? What better use could be be made of the site, which would be an ideal location for such a facility, and what an attraction for all - at different times of the day - including a relative oldie like me.

What's more, I'm sure it would be a commercially viable project. It's time we acted on the results of such surveys - rather than just gathering statistics - and I'm convinced such a dream could be made a reality if the powers that be so wish.

Is it too late to get an action plan organised?

Carol Kurrein

Cinque Ports Street, Rye