No benefit for people of the town

So our non-elected officials are looking at selling off our land; land that is owned by the people of Warwick.

Who has asked them to sell the land? Was it the people of the town? Was it our elected representatives? It seems that at least one leading councillor, Bob Dhillon, didn’t think so.

If he did oppose Andrew Jones on the possible sale of our land then I applaud him. Most people I speak with say they don’t want a budget hotel on this land.

As a past chairman of another local body that sought to protect our public land from sale, I have personally seen how inefficient and blinkered our local council staff can be. e.g. failing to realise that land in Priory Park had passed into the legal ownership of the police authority who then put it up for sale. I was part of the campaign that stopped the sale but, after two years, the legal ownership has not yet been returned to WDC.

And we are now to be threatened by the loss of land and disruption by HS2, the new local plan giving yet more anonymous housing estates, and now a faceless budget hotel in the town centre.

I am unable to see any benefit that the people of Warwick will gain from any of these projects and only problems they will face.

If there is to be any development in the town it should be in character with the town and of an individual nature.

For the WDC and WCC staff, many living outside the town, they face years of continued employment and pensions.

Colin Sullivan, The Paddocks, Warwick