The meeting last night in St Nicholas’ Church to discuss the market place was packed with residents. Barely a seat free in fact. Almost unanimous in their concerns about the mess we have been left with. From the critical road safety issues to the appalling drainage, metal bins, loss of traffic lights, a whole raft of issues raised, but the overriding view seemed to be that the shared use of road and pavement was unacceptable, and the overall scheme had been managed disgracefully.

I raised the issue of why the vennels had not had work done on them and have put in a freedom of information requesdt to find out if this work should have been included. It is one thing for the Labour Cabinet member to say that the project finished on budget, but clearly anything can finish on budgtet if you just do half the work.

I think this debate is going to rumble on. Once again Labour have made a mess of something which could have been great.

I would add that there are other bodies as well who may have to answer questions about this and about the way in which taxpayers money has been misspent.