Spend money on filling potholes

Is it not about time that the council stopped huffing and puffing over HS2 and devoted its resources to doing something that is needed today. It has no public mandate to spend £77,000 on opposing HS2 but should spend the money on repairing the many potholes that are appearing in our roads due to lack of council maintenance over the last few years.

Many of us are rather fed up with the interests of those residents of north Leamington always being at the forefront when those in the south have to accept extra housing, supermarkets, roads and the subsequent pollution that goes with it all. For too long the council has been pandering to their petitioning and it’s about time that at they should bear some of the pain if they want some if the gain of living in the highly developed infrastructure of this crowded island.

Perhaps we could overcome all of the county’s problems by having a new city located between Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth and Coventry, called ‘Spa City’. This would take all of the needed housing, Waitrose supermarkets, wind farms, solar farms, traveller sites, an HS2 station, new motorway links, sewage works and a shuttle to Birmingham Airport. Let’s go for it and show North Leamington what a 21st century project could be like.

In the meantime let the train take the strain and get on with it.

Nigel Briggs, Amroth Mews, Leamington