Trapped with disabilities
Dear Editor, Further to readers’ letters and your responses, may I add that our nearest bank branch is now Hastings and to get a bus, using our bus pass, is not possible as Stagecoach Buses refuse to let us on the bus as my wife, who has MS, needs to use a mobility scooter.
The scooter folds up to the size of a small suitcase but is two inches too long when open and in use.
The main Post Office in Bexhill is inaccessible with stairs at one end and an entrance at other end, which is designed to only take wheelchairs and not mobility scooters.
If you have mobility problems, you feel trapped, not being able to access services that you need.
Steve Richards
Move PO to revive dying town
Dear Editor, I am totally against the closure of the Bexhill Town Centre Post Office, however, there are empty banks in Devonshire Road which could potentially be used to re-site it.
I feel that Bexhill is sadly lacking in suitable parking spaces and the existing Post office site could be transformed into a multi-storey car park and revive the dying town centre.
The Friday market area could be repurposed as an excellent parking area for the disabled and the market moved into Devonshire Road and expanded similar to the French market layout.
Kim Owers
Northeye purchase
Dear Editor, I have been living in England since 1968 and can not remember ever having read nor heard of any audit nor report that has had anything but negative criticism of this ministry and its ministers.
It has on various occasions in that period been described as ‘unfit for purpose’. The get-out-of-jail excuses continuously employed to both rationalise and justify maladministration, whilst reassuring the public that lessons have been learned and procedures tightened up so as to prevent any further such errors and shortcomings couldn’t be further from the truth.
56 years of these Right Honourable statements really do stretch the credibility of successive governments!
James Robert-Poulain, Bexhill-on-Sea
Centenary proposal
Dear Editor, My idea to celebrate the first 100 years of the De La Warr Pavilion is a Centenary Clock. Asking a few people led to well over 90% thinking it a good idea.
A project like this would take 10 years to organise and be fitting to our most famous building. Heritage and preservation organisations could advise on a style matching the original building, so if you didn’t know, you would think it had always been there.
List building permission should then be allowed. This would be a very big and exciting project that I believe would have huge community support.
Paul Minter
Are the contractors the winners?
Dear Editor, Good news that East Sussex is to receive £21m for road repairs, although this not enough.
Unfortunately, councils waste too much money on inferior pothole repairs.
It’s obvious they don’t check the work carried out, so it’s the contractors who are laughing all the way to the bank.
V.L
Constant roadwork delays
Dear Editor, The sheer number of road works involving the supposed need for two-way lights are now a serious problem for anyone needing to drive to appointments, school run, shopping etc.
It is bad enough sitting in the congestion, and this is made worse when no work is actually being done. The works on Barnhorn Road being an example.
Also, when the work is completed the lights remain — again sometimes, for days with the subsequent effect on local businesses.
Is it too much to ask that East Sussex Highways and the companies involved work together to reduce delays to a minimum?
Colin Portch
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