Interested by street closure

There appears to be some concern regarding a cost of £2,000 due to closing Oteley Road after football matches and bringing parking restrictions across the Sutton & Meole Brace area. It appears some people regard this as an unfair "subsidy".

I note with interest that this amount could be paid for 30 home games a season (£60,000) for the next 467 years before it matches what we are paying just to build a venue for taxpayers who enjoy theatre, rather than football.

The annual subsidy of the theatre (£530,000) is nearly nine times that of the cost of effectively managing traffic on matchdays.

Over the next 467 years the theatre will have cost us £275,510,000, while closing Oteley Road and coning the area will cost just £28 million, and we can throw in a free visit of the England's women team for a full international in Shrewsbury.

I realise this example excludes the effect of inflation. Maybe the council can seek to reduce the cost of parking restrictions in Sutton by paying a firm about a grand to put out a few cones?

Perhaps residents could just block the roads with one of their 15 new wheelie bins/ boxes? It is interesting that there were not full parking restrictions in Belle Vue, Cherry Orchard or Abbey Foregate on matchdays at Gay Meadow.

It is also interesting that despite workers on weekdays and shoppers on Saturdays using these areas to park, along with Frankwell and Porthill, that there are not more restrictions where residents face disruption six days a week, rather than once a fortnight.

Dave Matthias, Shrewsbury