I CANNOT agree more with Berenice Williams’s comments about how fortunate we are to have access to the many different areas of Cirencester Park, having myself enjoyed many years of running (now walking) across the fields and through the woods.

From the objections to the estate application to install automatic gate closures at three of their entrance points I feel people have very short memories as during the pandemic the facility to walk virtually anywhere in the park must have been of great benefit, not only physically but also mentally to many local residents

Let’s not forget that no one (almost) has a divine right to access and it is private land and it is proposed to continue to be free to local (GL7) residents

Only on Friday last I met a couple from Hertfordshire who were staying at the caravan camp and expressed their gratitude that they were able to enjoy the freedom to walk in the park and would have been quite content to have paid for the facility

Ray Huxtable

Cirencester