CAN the district council and the county council please tell us where we can park cars and coaches when the building of the new Coleford Centre starts?
What are the plans for the present Community Centre and the Library? That car park is full almost all the time.
We have already lost nine parking spaces near the Co-op to accommodate the recycling containers moved from the coach and car park. Does this mean that we will be forced to have parking meters in Coleford?
Where is there an area within walking distance which could be used for parking as an alternative?
Will the fact that more than 400 people visited the Tourist Information Centre during Coleford's Carnival of Transport on Easter Monday influence the council and cause them to reconsider the suggestion that the present facility does not play a vital role in attracting visitors?
Could we please have answers to these questions. – B Jenkins, Parkend Walk, Coalway, Coleford.
Site is just plain wrong
The work has now started on the Coleford Community Centre, foisted onto us by the not so great and good of Coleford. Little or no joined up thinking has taken place into the final effects of the completed project, or so it seems.
While I agree the present Library and Community Centre may well have seen better days and Coleford might indeed need more cutting edge facilities, the new site is just plain wrong.
The removal of the parking spaces now means more congestion in the remaining car parks as people jockey for the few empty spaces available, with many resulting to parking on the access roads causing even more congestion.
The new (temporary?) site for the recycling bins reduces still further the number of available places and makes it difficult for the bins to be emptied or changed without causing further congestion. A better location must be found and found quickly. Maybe in front of the council offices – there is plenty of room there.
The closure of the car park also means there is nowhere in Coleford for service buses and visiting coaches to park off road. It was also one of few carks that you did not have to travel through residential areas or the centre of Coleford to access.
Likewise if I were a tourist towing a caravan or driving a large motorhome type vehicle there is now no car park in Coleford with the room to manoeuvre much less park, but there again we already know the council are anti tourism by their threats to close the tourism offices.
While not officially condoned the car parks around the present library complex meant those people wanting to access the shops in St John Street area the chance to park conveniently close. When these car parks eventually close the shops in this area will be affected just as the traders in Coleford will be adversely affect by the building of the new library.
To me it seems as if the "great and the good" will no doubt tell us all how great things will be when it is finished and bask in their own glory when in fact they should be ashamed of what they haven't achieved. – Frank Williams, Coleford.