Who’s responsible?

11:34am Thursday 10th April 2008

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JULIAN Palfrey's letter (Plans need sensitive touch) makes several good points: but there are deeper faults which have contributed to the position he describes.

The site now proposed for redevelopment is, as he says, important in that it provides an entry to Pershore and to its High Street: but it, and the buildings around, has been an eyesore for many years. It would have been possible to secure planning permission for a much more appropriate building that is now proposed; one which would be useful in itself as well as contributing to the architecture of a fine street - and which did not add to the number of empty shops. There are, elsewhere in Pershore, at least two other decrepit structures, one near the junction of Defford Road and Three Springs Road and the other just off New Road, near the Factory Shop. These are smaller and on less important sites, but their potential is, similarly, being ignored.

Everyone to whom I speak, whether in a local authority or in the Civic Society, replies that it is not their responsibility and that nothing can be done. Meanwhile, the situations concerned get worse. Surely a more constructive approach could be adopted?

RICHARD GOSS, Weir Gardens, Pershore.