COME on people of Andover.

Why are we allowing Test Valley Borough Council and their councillors, from another galaxy, to control and ruin our town?

Can anyone with no political leanings, like myself, explain to me why we actually need TVBC and their councillors?

Their leader, Phil North, has more or less said they have very little control over anything within the Chantry Centre, so they’ll build a new eatery complex around The Lights area, taking more trade away from the town, but at least they can own it.

Not very long ago, this same man, along with our MP whose name I’ve forgotten already, were supposedly begging on our behalf, for M&S not to leave our town and cost us even more trade! Now here we are a few months on, and thanks to the knowledge of Paul Flippance, being told that permission has been given to Lidl, etc to take even more trade away from our town by opening on the Walworth!

Then, regardless of anyone’s thoughts regarding the public toilets saga, it’s just so obvious with another facility gone, it will deter visitors to our town.

Do we really need TVBC anymore? What exactly have they done for our town over the last ten years?

It’s bad enough having Hampshire County Council, with their councillor from a town the other side of our county, spending so much time and money widening our pavements, that they’ve forgotten about the potholes continuously causing serious damage to our cars!

If you intend to reply to this letter, please don’t bore us with political jargon!

Ron Wood, Ashfield Road, Andover.