Pick up a pen (From Malvern Gazette)

Pick up a pen

4:22pm Friday 10th August 2007 in Letters

THE excellent letter from Martin Eager (Your Letters, July 27) moves me to write in turn.

There is no doubt what the people of Ledbury want: the library in the Master's House. Our county councillors, regarding themselves no doubt as our masters rather than our servants, seem determined not to take the slightest notice of what anybody here says.

English Heritage has never said no to the proposal of the Master's House for the library; it has actually said that any proposal is worthy of consideration. What we need is a proper feasibility study to put before it. As for the possibility of Lottery money for the Youth Centre proposal, we can do without its millions to buy us something nobody wants.

Many people here must have felt as insulted as I by the recent consultative document on the Master's House. I am glad to see that there is no really satisfactory solution, apart from the obvious one, the library, which was carefully omitted. In spite of this, many people wrote in. I personally crossed the whole thing out and scrawled library' in big letters over it. So much for local democracy in action.

I urge everyone to pick up a pen right now and write to your three county councillors and to the leader of the county council. Just a few lines to the effect that the Master's House wants the library and that the library wants the Master's House.

Don't forget too, the petition, available in several local shops. The situation is desperate; I can see them getting their own way in something that affects, well, only the whole of Ledbury, after all.

KEN DODSWORTH, Market Street, Ledbury.