Responding to a letter from Cllr Dave Smith (Letters, March 2), the point of my letter was to suggest that the council had gone back on its plans to push through a £10m compulsory purchase order for the site from NCP as was indicated by Cllr Beesley in the Daily Echo of June 2013 by saying: “There is a real need for a new Transport Hub in the town centre and this was identified in the Town Centre Area Action Plan.”
Maybe the council hopes that the people of Bournemouth have short memories concerning the things they say they will do compared to what actually happens.
The response was that the council didn’t have sufficient resources to carry this out.
However, the council seems to be happily throwing more cash at the Pier Approach area, and continuing to sell town assets/car parks to developers.
Cllr Smith says “The council is building on a number of surface car parks but the new developments are replacing the car parking that is lost”, but surely these new “developments” bring their own set of increased car parking demands?
Meanwhile the council is happy to tempt more people into the Town Centre by encouraging more “entertainment development”, reducing the number of car parking spaces by selling off/building on existing car parks and seemingly being happy with the ongoing dangerous situation experienced by people at the bus stop areas along Gervis Road where lives are put at risk on a daily basis.
It is, I agree, a very big “picture” that the council is trying to paint, but I fear they are “painting” the wrong areas at times.
D Foster,
Copythorne Close, Bournemouth
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