THE Chesterton housing situation rumbles on. Having worked and run a small business off Chesterton Lane for 16 years, I’ve seen this area around Love Lane and Chesterton get busier and busier.

Of a day now, there are dozens and dozens of cars parking everywhere they can on the sides of the roads, and presumably the owners working in the area and consequently getting around safely is becoming a problem.

The road leading up to the Somerford Road crossroads from the town, and the road from the Budgens fuel station up to the same crossroads is ridiculous. This latter road outside my work at Chesterton halt is dangerous.

Trying to pull out blind onto the busy road through the parked cars is mostly luck and an accident will happen. The highways were contacted about it and they didn’t want to know and the same with the police. The officer we spoke too actually said there would have to be a fatality for there to be yellow lines there.

So build houses in Chesterton, just a case of more madness and more chaos for us who live it every day.

Think it’s more Cirencester’s legacy to Lord Bathurst and not vice versa.

Bottom line is it’s simply money in the bank for Lord Bathurst and no benefit at all to us who live and work close.

There are houses being built in Kemble at this second (possibly, I think, on Bathurst land?) which carry a price tag of over £700k with some at £1m –this isn’t housing for local people – sounds like housing for people who stay and work in London all week.

Cirencester is what it is and that’s what makes it Cirencester, it’s not Swindon or Gloucester and we like it just as it is.

On a slightly different note, every year on Remembrance Sunday many of us stand outside the parish church for the service.

Before we swamp the town with more housing, could we firstly splash out on a PA or speaker system so we can hear what’s being said. We stand there every year like sheep, not knowing or hearing what’s happening.

A speaker on a pole, Lord Bathurst, would be a much more beneficial legacy to Cirencester.

MARTIN SAUNDERS

Church street

Cirencester