WHAT is going on at Wyre Forest District Council?

First, I reported a number of cases of dog faeces on a small stretch of pavement in Hurcott Road and was told that it may take a couple of days to have it removed. It took more than two weeks.

On Friday, April 22, I telephoned Kidderminster Town Hall to purchase tickets for the launch of John Combe's new book Get Your Kicks on the A456, featured in the Shuttle/Times and News on April 21.

The event, featuring original bands and well-known musicians, is to take place at the venue on Saturday, May 21, but I was told that ticket purchases were not possible over the telephone, only by visiting the booking office in person.

However, the office is only open from 9am until 4pm, Monday until Friday.

Surely it would be common sense to also open it on a Saturday, when most people are able to visit the town centre, as is seen by the regular throng of shoppers.

I then turned to the next page of your newspaper, and discovered that the district council has handed a "design brief" to developers, which requires a multiplex cinema at the former magistrates court building in Worcester Street, as part of a wider redevelopment of the area.

But why? The town now has the brand new four-screen Warehouse Cinema, only a short distance away in Green Street, thanks to Kidderminster solicitor Simon Swaffield, who has risked many thousands of pounds of his own money to give local people what they have been wanting for many years, and which the council has failed to provide.

The district council should now forget the cinema issue, keep the old court's original frontage, put shops at street level with living accommodation above and make the area in front a tree-lined street, a boulevard, with seating, flowerbeds and water features, to welcome visitors.

And, of course, signs for the Warehouse Cinema, Rowland Hill and Swan shopping centres, and riverside walk to the Weavers Wharf shopping complex.

I do hope the council gets the redevelopment right, and does the town justice.

DAVID GUEST

Hurcott Road

Kidderminster