I am writing to congratulate the planning department at HDC on their excellent work in  improving the quality of the living environment in St Neots, making it so much more enjoyable for the people of the town.

At last they have got rid of those awful trees on the Market Square, which as far as I could tell were only any use for holding up some naff Christmas lights and harbouring a few tatty pigeons.

I’m looking forward to the new scheme which will be completed with environmentally friendly plastic palm trees which will remain in leaf all year round, in the shade of which we can enjoy an open-air nightclub and disco so we feel like we are in Lanzarote in January. Maybe we'll even get an upgraded burger van!

And then there is the truly magnificent tin shed that has been built just for our visual titillation in Church Walk.

I heard a story that the original plans submitted to HDC for this "building" made it look almost like the ones around it!

But luckily the planners at HDC with their planning degrees from planning universities where they learned to plan things quite rightly turned it down and told the builders to order a shipping container off eBay and convert it into a lean-to bog with all mod cons.

I was worried that the golden age of architecture, namely sixties brutalism, was dead. But no! We are bucking the trend, able to revel in the glorious display put on for us by our visionary masters, with St Neots fast becoming an architectural show-town able to rival Basildon in its magnificence.

I am at this moment contacting the publishers of my book, “St Neots Through Time” (available from all good museums), to ask them to tipp-ex out the trees on the cover.

 

Jonathan Mountfort

Russell Street

St Neots