HAVING in the recent past made some perhaps savage comments on the way I thought Westbury as a town was shaping, I would like to say how much I like the way the council has arranged for the view to the library to be opened up by cutting a staircase through the shrubs in front of it, even though the process has reduced the amount of parking space available to library visitors.
The adjacent rotunda too, combined with the shrubs in blocking off a clear view of that part of the town; but I suppose it can now revert to what was possibly intended to be its main function providing a fun place on a sunny day where people could eat a sandwich lunch and/or read a book or newspaper, or just sunbathe.
What's that you say? How about the fumes from all the car exhausts? Well, you can't have everything. Strikes me that's what they'll all be getting.
Things are improving in the town, though. Westbury will never be a silk purse of course, but it moved away from being a sow's ear when it introduced state-of-the-art lavatories in which unhappily in the urinals, anyway too many men refuse the opportunity to wash their hands afterwards.
JOHN PALMLEY,
Whitecroft,
Dilton Marsh,
Westbury.
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