The latest planning application submitted to planners for approval shows all vehicles to be excluded from the Market Square.

The existing 28 disabled parking spaces are to be replaced with eight disabled spaces on the existing south road along with two taxi parking spaces.

Is this to discouraged disabled people to come to the town centre? 

The west side of the square is to provide future staging for concerts and music festivals with the dilapidated Falcon Hotel as a background. Not the best of backdrops.

The closing of many large and small well established town centre shops, along with five public houses up for sale will further discourage locals and visitors to the town.

St Neots over the years, with its riverside park, historic Market Square and events on the river has been a magnet for visitors

The large housing developments at Love's Farm 2,500 and Wintringham 5,000 increasing the population with potential to shop, work and spend in the town is not being considered by planners as no small start up commercial/industrial units are being approved, leaving entrepreneurs with great business ideas to move into converted farm buildings in villages.

We seem to have gone backwards from the ideas and help the local council provided in 1970s with the help given to encourage large and small business to locate to St Neots along with providing housing for employees.

Land was identified as non residential and planners agreed enabling the town to grow providing housing and employment in town.

With the £12.3 million grant the town received from central government two years ago for renovation in the town and tens of millions of pounds continually going into council coffers from the Community Infra Structure charge from developers on properties built.

The councils in some hidden department are awash with unspent cash whilst losing money with inflation whilst they sit on it, leaving towns and villages to decline

Let’s stop the personal, departmental, and political wrangling, for the good of all to get a grip on making the town providing housing, business recreation for all enabling St Neots to be known as a great place to live and work.

B Jones

Eaton Socon

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