The net effect of the proposed taxi rank closure is to deprive taxi drivers of income, boost Network Rail’s coffers with high priced parking permits and cause yet a further impediment to the disabled whether rail users or not.
I am grateful to Mr Arnold (letters 31/1/19) for raising the issue of public debt. I too do not like excessive public debt and the consequent burden of funding it, though that is as far as Mr Arnold and I are likely to agree.
Every year West Sussex county and district councils cut their service provision budgets but nobody has the foresight to examine the organisation which is needed to deliver those services in a cost effective way.
Now we know the rate for hiring Priory Park from Chichester District Council for the ice rink was £1 I would like to hire the park for a year for a fiver in order to run an event for families and the people of Chichester.
You report (The Guide, 31 January) that the life-size resin sculpture of Private Maurice Patten, at present standing in the garden of the Cloisters Café at Chichester Cathedral, is to be removed next month.
On 7th January, Gillian Keegan signed the cross-party letter instigated by Tory former cabinet minister Caroline Spelman and Labour’s Jack Dromey urging the Prime Minister to rule out a no-deal Brexit.
Well done Sarah Sharp and the Chichester Observer for the two page article highlighting the excessively high CO2 emissions in West Sussex (Observer January 24th).
Last week, the Observer published two articles sharing views on what the future holds for the A27 in the Chichester area and the discussions and work that has taken place along the way.
In answer to Mr Howard Smith I feel there has to be a reply. Unless those ten customers who left him, overnight became carnivores it seems likely they buy their vegetables elsewhere now.
