I disagree with Coun Caswill’s article featured on the front page of the Gazette (December 4), given that the gist of the article is one of complaint about disruption because the road is being dug up, when there are reasons to be cheerful.

Those of us with longer memories will recall when a trench was dug at a huge rate of progress when, in the late 1990s, a connection was made between RAF Lyneham and the Chippenham substation. The trench was not too wide and much of the progress was at a speed suggested in last week’s article, namely 100 to 200 metres per day.

All these complaints are from an ex-Liberal councillor (now Independent). I thought the idea of making energy using the sun would be something to relish rather than feature one-off disruption.

Solar farms can be ugly blots on the skyline that take up precious agricultural land but the one in question apparently to be built on land part occupied by Castle Combe Circuit must be one of the more imaginative uses of the  land around the circuit itself.

Think of the benefits of relatively free energy generation rather than be pictured complaining about progress. As the old saying goes “no gain without pain”.

RJB Giles,
Chippenham Town Council.