Regarding Alastair Emblem’s amazement the Herald has received no letters about the roadworks in Farnham town centre (Letters, March 27), I can assure him hundreds of people are complaining on Farnham’s social media sites.

People are using words such as: chaos, shambles, ridiculous, stupid, ludicrous, ill-conceived, poor planning and dangerous.

On every road leading into the town and in the town centre, vehicles are gridlocked, chugging out exhaust fumes. Did the Farnham infrastructure planners envisage this scenario?

Vehicles can now turn right from Castle Street into The Borough to leave the town via West Street. Some people seem to like it. Some do not.

One day I joined the queue to drive down West Street into The Borough. I was in the middle lane because vehicles were queueing to go up Castle Street blocking my view of cars coming down the street. I drove on and came bumper to bumper with a car trying to turn right.

An accident blackspot maybe requiring an ambulance or police presence, but where are the ambulance and police vehicles? In Downing Street, Union Road or South Street, stuck in a long line of vehicles.

Pedestrian safety seems non-existent in The Borough. Why has a new crossing been placed too close to the top of Downing Street? I believe even the pedestrian safety island has been removed from the bottom of Castle Street. Pollution in Downing Street must be far worse than it ever was in The Borough. Shopkeepers are saying they have to keep their doors shut because of the choking fumes being emitted.

Their takings are also down. Shoppers find it too time-consuming trying to get into the town. People are saying they now shop in Alton.

The Farnham Infrastructure Plan includes widening of the pavements in Downing Street. Why? It will make it impossible for ambulances and fire engines to even nudge their way along the road.

Are the planners thinking that such vehicles will never be needed to attend emergencies in the town centre?

For many people their bete noir is those damned planters and little posts. Nobody wants them.

Once again the powers-that-be are lumbering Farnham with another white elephant. Eventually we will have a whole herd of them.

Maureen Covey

Hurlands Close

Farnham

I agree wholeheartedly with Alastair Emblem, where are all the complaints about the roadwork situation in Farnham?

I have to travel down Firgrove Hill to enter the town. More often than not, we are held up in lights there.

I am a disabled driver and rely on parking near to my destination. I am unable to use outside Elphicks now as there are police cones. Car parks for that part of town are too far for me to walk.

I feel for all the shops which must be affected badly. Why would you want to come into town, unless it was urgent?

May I also suggest to the council that they get rid of those planters and posts in Downing Street, as they are pointless.

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I just have to write regarding what is happening to Farnham.

Well what is happening to it? It was said there would be no disruption to pedestrians - what a laugh! It is a total nightmare in the town. Why on earth is there any need to turn right at the bottom of Castle Street? For years and years it has been left-turn only and it worked perfectly OK. Pedestrian crossings are dangerous.

They are killing this lovely town. Workmen’s signs are all over the pavements, a hazard, and what is the common sense of having shopkeepers’ boards also on the pavement? Not a bit of sense or thought for disabled people, wheelchair users, or buggies. Poor-sighted people could easily fall over.

Shop owners should know better, we all know what shops we want to go to. People do not want to read the boards - they should be made to remove them.

I think all this was thought up by people who have lived in Farnham for a few years, or not at all. They have no idea.

I am saddened and disgusted with it. It’s a waste of money. As for Downing Street, I will say no more.

People are not going to come to Farnham and can you blame them? A lovely old market town ruined.

Mrs C Davies

Farnham

In the edition of the Herald from February 27, an article (Twitchers at Tice's hoping for handsome visitor) horrified me. One, if there was a goshawk near Tice’s Meadow it spells doom for all the other birds there, except perhaps swans.

This evil, ruthless bird will destroy the area and then move on. I have seen this happen on the Wiltshire/Dorset border.

You admit in your article that the goshawk will prey on the nests of other birds. You say that they usually prey on squirrels and crows, but when they are gone, what next?

Please concentrate on the rare birds that really matter.

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Regarding your article ‘Aircraft's night flight alarms Farnham residents’ (Herald, March 13). These surveys happen every few weeks. Then there are the repetitive flights every few months for Farnborough and Odiham to calibrate the instrument landing systems. The attached flights were from 8.30am to 2.30pm on Wednesday, none of these flights are included in flight numbers or aircraft noise measurement.

One of the issues everyone keep avoiding is the impact of more flights and new flightpaths on property prices. We’ve calculated it and it is the billions. When someone sells their house, they are legally obliged to state proposed or planned changes in flights or flightpaths in the TA6/Sellers Information Pack.

We’ve written to estate agents locally asking why they aren’t complying with this. No response. We’ve asked the national body, PropertyMark, why they aren’t communicating this. No response to several emails over six months.

We think this is something the public should know about as, at some point, it will result in claims from buyers against estate agents.

Farnborough Noise Group