A school any where near the centre of the town can only add to the congestion and put off shoppers. On Friday it took me 45 minutes at 2pm to drive from the cinema to Sainsburys and back. Every road was totally log jammed. A junior school on the old Splash site will only add to the already existing traffic problems.

A vibrant shopping mall with parking is what is needed for the centre of our town.

A planning mistake was made regarding the building on West Quay which was sold to ASDA for a petrol station.

It has blocked that site and it has been boarded up for years.

A lot of Sedgemoor and County Councillors live a long way away from Bridgwater, ie Cheddar, Burnham, Taunton, areas.

In the next four years with the population explosion in Bridgwater we will need our existing Senior Schools to take an extra 200 pupils each, or build one extra senior school for 1,000 pupils.

I Joined the Bridgwater Chamber of Trade when I came to Bridgwater around 1967. At that time Wessex Water asked if we could put a £1m amenity value on having 19ft of fresh water under the Town Bridge, creating a fresh water reservoir from a Barrage at Dunball nearly up to Langport, grassy banks right through the town centre. They voted no. A costly mistake.

Keith Barnard, Bridgwater