Or new nuclear power stations?
Or are they happy to go back to living without electricity as our great-grandparents did?

Those are the choices we have and rather than complaining about the building of some (to me quite attractive) wind turbines, perhaps they should see the bigger picture that drives the need for these things.

Or is it that they simply do not want them where they can see them but are happy for them to be in someone else's back garden?
Tony Jones,
Somersham

Flooding will be made worse

>> Having been told by Huntingdonshire District Council that the grassed surfaced area football pitches were safe after local residents fought a rather lengthy campaign, councillors and planners are again about to break  their word and promises.

Malcolm Lyons who wants to stand as a Tory candidate in May East Ward had the cheek to pop his electoral address with his photo in Riverside Park stating that the pitches won't be turned into a car park area.
If he stood there at the moment he would be underwater as The Great Ouse has flooded Riverside Park's banks.

They are offering to spend quite a large amount of taxpayers money on concreting more areas over in the park starting at The Godmanchester bridge area by improving the mooring area for boats and barges.

They are proposing to concrete over a large area of the grassed football pitches to lay green plastic pitches for children to play on, evicting the senior players up to Kings Ripton where you need a car to travel to and where it's not safe to cross the road. The new pitches can also be used for emergency parking. And at the far end of Riverside Park are improvements going to be made there?

A consultation period is taking place even though Huntingdonshire District Council agreed not to remove the grassed area pitches. It's all about car parking and not improving the Riverside Park.
With the new town hall being built with taxpayers money, the district council will be building new flats on its car park so they need extra spaces in Riverside Park.
Because HHP (Huntingdon Housing Partnership) built flats in their car park, at least 20 of their vehicles are parked up at Alconbury Air Base where the containers are stored near Cambridgeshire police dog training area.

They also park in Riverside Park as do taxis and quite a few town hall workers. You can start to understand the reasons why they need to park their cars in Riverside Park.
In the last few months, large areas of Riverside Park have flooded to allow the Great Ouse to flow.

If the council agrees to concrete over more of Riverside Park, where will the floodwaters flow? Into the areas where HHP built new houses or into the town?

Surely Riverside Park was established and left as a green space to be used as recreational purposes and to relieve the Great Ouse when flooding occurs. With the Guided Bus driving along Riverside Park on concrete beds and with councillors looking again at concreting over the grassed football pitches, this is a recipe for disaster
Robert Cossey-Mowle
Hartford Road

We're not all anti-social

>> In the Town Crier on March 13, there was a story entitled 'Night crime in town on new police priority list'.

The article regards anti-social behaviour problem areas in St Ives.
The Turberville Court area was one of those named, but I'd like to point out that we are not all the same – there are only a few residents that are a problem.

The rest of us are getting fed up with being tarred with the same brush.
The police attend one house on a regular basis, and if these people were evicted the problem would go away and the whole area would be a safer, quieter place.
Name withheld by agreement

Where are your children?

>> I was disgusted by the behaviour of the young people who attended a party in Little Paxton (Town Crier, March 20).
Have parents so little control over their offsprings these days?
I have a teenage girl and wouldn't dream of dropping her off at some party without ensuring it was properly supervised.

She is also well educated about the dangers of under-aged drinking, and although she's not perfect, is more responsible than most girls her age.
I was also incredibly disappointed by the lack of action from the police.They seemed scared to do anything, and when they finally did it just moved problems elsewhere.

I just hope parents in the village learn a lesson from this and keep a closer eye on what their children get up to.
A Folwell
Little Paxton

MP has right to opinion

>> I'D like to take issue with the campaigners in the article 'MP stands firm on plane plans' (Town Crier, March 20).
Regardless of whether MP Jonathan Djanogly agrees or disagrees with them, he is entitled to an opinion. No MP is ever going to be in agreement with all his constituents, and has to decide what issues he can take up.

Mr Djanogly researched the issue and found himself disagreeing with a small minority who are kicking up a fuss about their rural idylls turning into a noisy nightmare. I'm sorry, but a few planes, 7,000ft overhead, is not going to cause that much disruption.
I'd rather have an MP who fights for things he believes in rather than jumping on any bandwagon (although being a Tory in Huntingdonshire it doesn't matter what he does as he's guaranteed to be elected).
Mr F Barnstable
Hunts