Don't listen to outsiders, listen to residents

4:11pm Thursday 11th December 2008

I HAVE lived in Bladon Close, Braintree, for eight years. I am disabled, so some weekends I go up to the football pitches to watch our upcoming footballers. It is great to see and hear the children’s parents shouting encouragement to their sons and daughters, and then go to watch the older ones. It brings back great memories of when you played. It is a great place to have a sports field, it is very safe and it is near for the up-and-coming and present children of the Glebe estate. Braintree Council wants to stop all this enjoyment and competition, it would rather take advice from other people rather than the people of Braintree. I was under the impression that Braintree Council had a motto, saying “We are here for the community”, and the Government is encouraging councils to provide more spaces for sports to encourage children and parents to be more active and fitter, but Braintree Council wants the children of Braintree to become computer or laptop cabbages, because it wants to sell our sports fields to build 150 houses or more. What is most important, our children’s well being or houses and paying more council taxes? If this ridiculous proposal goes through, is Braintree Council going to build more schools, because at this moment all the schools are almost full, and also you would need more police, firefighters, doctors and playschools? Who is going to pay for all this? – it would be the people of Braintree again. I say to Braintree Council, leave the sports field where it is and talk to the people, not outsiders. The people are more important.

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Interfering EERA

4:15pm Thursday 11th December 2008

Once again, the East of England Regional Assembly (EERA) is interfering with local affairs.

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We need more jobs

4:16pm Thursday 11th December 2008

Well done to our local councillors who have rubbished a development of 2,000 houses, employment use, a football stadium and new sites for Braintree College and the BMX track (Times, December 3).

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Left waiting

4:17pm today Thursday 11th December 2008

I am hoping for a Christmas present from Braintree Council – a response to a job application in the mail department which was taken in by hand to Causeway Towers.

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PCSOs are a priority

4:18pm Thursday 11th December 2008

The winter issue of Contact, Braintree Council’s newsletter, urges residents to tell the council what the priorities should be for next year’s budget.

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Bus changes

4:19pm Thursday 11th December 2008

Regarding the buses and poor response by those who are supposed to provide a service for all people and get paid to do so, I am finding it very hard to understand why, and how, it is necessary to change the bus routes by those who don’t use them and have their own transport.

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Plan will lead to more jams

4:19pm Thursday 11th December 2008

Regarding the development off the Service Road/Yard 3 in Maldon Road, Witham, it can only result in more congestion in Maldon Road itself.

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Parking confusion

4:21pm Thursday 11th December 2008

I popped into Braintree on Sunday morning for 20 minutes because my girlfriend wanted to do a quick shop in George Yard.

Fighting for human rights

4:21pm Thursday 11th December 2008

Today marks 60 years since world leaders adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

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Neanderthal strikes

4:22pm Thursday 11th December 2008

For the 54 years that my late wife and I have lived in Braintree, we used any garden gift vouchers we received to buy a collection of standard roses for our front garden – this not only for our pleasure, but also to share with neighbours and passers-by.

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Thanks for Iori story

4:23pm Thursday 11th December 2008

I would like to thank the Braintree and Witham Times for running the article about Iori Williams’s accident (Times, November 26).

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Stand up to the BNP

4:23pm Thursday 11th December 2008

For some weeks now the British National Party has been in Witham and the district.

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Items found in car park

4:24pm Thursday 11th December 2008

Last week, in the car park of the Tesco store in the Market Place, Braintree, I found property which belongs to a Mr K Riley, of Watch House Green.

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Let's unite to protect our bus services

4:31pm Thursday 4th December 2008

I had a nice, prompt reply to my letter to managing director Bob Dorr of First buses.

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First should improve link

4:32pm Thursday 4th December 2008

Regarding the planned termination of the 352 bus service: this is a poor decision when First should be doing the opposite – improving the service so more people are inclined to use it.

They don't ask us passengers

4:34pm Thursday 4th December 2008

Regarding the changes to the bus routes (Times, November 19), of course they never think to ask the passengers.

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Supportive of regeneration

4:35pm Thursday 4th December 2008

In reply to Mandy Smith (Times, November 26), I’d like to clarify a few points.

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Hands off open spaces

4:36pm Thursday 4th December 2008

All open spaces within the town envelope must be regarded as “green spaces” and need to be given a value which is beyond that understood by the accountant mentality we so often are the victims of.

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Change voting systems

4:37pm Thursday 4th December 2008

Bill Edwards stated (Times, November 19) that “the British people elected the current Government”.

Stop dog dirt on our pitches

4:38pm Thursday 4th December 2008

A while ago Braintree Rugby Club had problems of dogs fouling on and around our rugby pitches.

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