Letter: Building more offices when so many lie empty

Letter: As a user of the Shrewsbury Business Park I am concerned that yet another green field space is to be used to build offices to house another potential one thousand people with jobs. With so many brown sites and empty offices around the town one has to question the competence of the planners.

Also, unknown to a lot of taxpayers, a number of the existing buildings on this site are occupied by Shropshire Council and Shrewsbury Town Council staff.

You have to ask the question why when they are indicating that the Guildhall is to be sold off as surplus to requirements - yet another exercise in wasting money.

For those of us that use this park we all know of the parking difficulties, there is no worthwhile public transport access, so with the potential of an additional thousand cars, plus extra service vehicles where are we all to park?

It would be good if the planners had the gumption to explain the reasoning behind their planning strategy within the former SABC boundary

L Oliver

Shrewsbury