Plans not in interest of people

Will the planners never learn?

The plans for "putting the heart into Telford" look like yet another nightmare. Bulldozing Meeting Point House, the library and other useful places to plonk down some ugly minimalist blocks with plenty of facilities for all-night drinking isn't much of a future for Telford.

Telford planners had it all wrong in the first place; they tried to impose an American shopping mall and call it a town centre.

They then did their best to destroy the existing town centres of Wellington, Oakengates, Dawley and Madeley. All of which had hearts of gold.

Planning should be for the needs of the people, not to satisfy the planners' egos or meet Government targets. This latest plan is exactly what we don't want.

The borough council should understand that the local communities have already suffered enough and concentrate on the regeneration of the "borough towns" as it has recently begun to call them.

Councillors of whatever party, who care for the communities within the development area of Telford, should throw out these proposals as far as they will go and serve the needs of their voters.

They should use our taxes to make the place better, not bigger.

The latest plans are based on old fashioned 1960s thinking and not in the interests of the people who voted the new council in. Regenerating the town centres should be the future. Has the council learned the lessons of Telford's failures?

We shall see.

George Evans, Wellington