SIR,
Having read your excellent reports on the three main issues affecting our town, I would like to make some observations.
Why not build a replacement comprehensive school there (the idea has been mooted previously) so that it can expand, something it cannot do at the moment.
You can build new houses on the school's present site, with good access to the A40.
An alternative would be to sell that site off to someone like Tesco, which already owns the corner by Dixton Roundabout.
I am aware that we have two supermarkets in town, although we only have one filling station. The money could be used to purchase ground for building, an example would be the other side of Dixton Road.
• Tourist Information Centre: For Kellie Beirne to say there would be no immediate move by the TIC to the Shire Hall, something our Town Council has requested, as it would pre-empt the report, shows they have no intention of allowing the centre to return in its present form.
Why is it that an unelected officer of MCC is allowed to overturn a request from a democratically elected council, whose members only have the town's best interests at heart?
What she fails to grasp is that while a website serves potential customers to the town by supplying information to tourists before they get here, the visitor needs to be greeted personally by informed staff, a much better way of continuing an excellent service.
Would anyone feel welcome at the hotel you booked online by an 'interactive' check-in computer at the front desk? Take a note from our top hotels, Kellie.
Who can expect our current TIC to survive positioned where it is anyway? A great excuse to change 'failing' service, according to her statistics on footfall.
• Budget: We are all aware that there is a need to be more 'prudent' than before with cuts at the top filtering down to cost savings at the bottom.
I commend MCC for attempting to absorb these hits by restructuring and maximising the use of the buildings it owns, (Shire Hall and TIC spring to mind here, someone ring Kellie Beirne).
The comment at the end by our assembly member Nick Ramsay was the most poignant: "These are extremely difficult financial times for local government in Wales".
Remembering that members have a salary of £53,852, he and nine members of the Tory group at the National Assembly claimed a total of £865 overnight expenses for staying at the Conrah Hotel, three miles south of Aberystwyth, an evening which coincided with his birthday.
They justified the trip by stating: "It was a group visit on Assembly business and included meetings at a hospice, schools and a hospital.
"Shadow ministers should not be isolated in a 'Cardiff bubble' and should fully understand the needs of people right across Wales."
He is not alone on the gravy train that is the Welsh Assembly.
That amount would have probably paid for the immediate move of the TIC back to the Shire Hall, had Kellie Beirne allowed it.
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