I read on Facebook a report in a Somerset newspaper that the old Bowyers site (now referred to as Innox Mills) had a proposal to be developed into housing and now I read in last week’s Wiltshire Times the same report but it is hidden amongst other proposed sites.
How many more houses do we need in the county town of Wiltshire? 
The old Ushers bottling store, the old bus station, the old football ground and the old Nutrex factory in Yerbury Street have all been developed into housing, and now the doctors’ surgery that is in Bradford Road is about to be developed into more dwellings.
Is the council’s intention to turn Trowbridge into a dormitory town? 
The town’s infrastructure is not up to what it has to deal with now, the one-way system does not work without getting snarled up with traffic and the bottleneck around Trinity Church and the beginning of Bythesea Road is a nightmare.
This needs sorting out as the problem is only going to get much worse when extra houses are built.
We had a march by the townspeople for the redevelopment of this site into better facilities for the town; what this site is crying out for is more leisure facilities, like a dual purpose building that can be used as a second cinema or a theatre to put on live shows, as was the case with the Gaumont cinema that was in the centre of the town. 
I expect that most of the councillors are too young to know about this. 
Also things like indoor tennis courts, ten pin bowling, squash courts, indoor bowls rinks (as the one proposed for replacing the Christie Miller ones seem to have disappeared into the mists of time), a new indoor swimming pool with proper access for the disabled. 
All or any of these facilities would enhance the town and have easy access to them being next to the railway station as people could commute in by train instead of having to travel by car as they now have to do to reach the outdated facilities that are now on offer.
Come on Trowbridge Council take off the blinkers and look to the future, make Trowbridge town truly a county town again. 
If other towns can regenerate themselves, why not ours?
R A Naish
Chalfont Close
Trowbridge