WE continually learn of the efforts being made to enhance Malvern's Springs and Wells heritage and yet simple opportunities are being missed.

In Holy Well Road, the roadside outfall of Goat Spring has recently been renovated, no doubt to improve the drainage after the recent wet autumn. Instead of an attractive roadside spout feature we find a raised manhole that looks more like an industrial waste outfall.

The more attractive option would cost no more, possibly less, and would have been just as effective. Who authorised this monstrosity and why did the not use a little imagination?

BRUCE OSBORNE, Holy Well Road, Malvern Wells.