Rethink needed to save town

LETTER: Perhaps someone could explain to me the difference between regeneration and deterioration because in my town, Wellington, they appear to mean the same.

We have had a project manager on a good salary. We have had expensive consultants who were at a meeting at the parish church and did not even know about the town drainage problem. A few more shop fronts were improved at great cost and what has this achieved?

Nothing. Wellington is dying.

A radical rethink is necessary – incentives to bring in new business, perhaps by rate cuts, rent reductions and new attractions. Without attracting new shoppers further deterioration will be inevitable.

Telford & Wrekin spent £1.5 million on publicity last year, Transforming Telford took about £1 million.

A really well-performing council generates its own good publicity. Let all the electorate see regeneration of our small towns.

Talk is cheap – it is always regeneration tomorrow but tomorrow never comes. We need less emphasis on the soulless town shopping centre and more on our historic small towns.

D L Barnett

Arleston