IS there anyone at Mansfield District Council able to explain to the residents of Mansfield and District when they are going to cease allowing acres of productive crop growing farmland in the District to be put under concrete, which in the not too distant future will be needed to feed the growing population of this country?
Perhaps Mayor Egginton can explain this in his next letter to Chad.
Farmland is now changing hands at prices never seen before, to be put back under plough because of rising commodity prices outstripping supply.
I now refer to the proposed mons
trosity (as depicted in Chad, 16th April) to be known as Mansfield West Notts College and sited on good productive farmland adjacent to Cauldwell Road. It confounds a lot of Mansfield people why the college can't be rebuilt, extended and modernised on the site it now occupies.
Something else to point out is is that if the college does re-locate it is quite likely that it will be some time before the old college site is re-developed because large building firms have stopped development due to the mortgage drought and falling house prices.
So what does it leave the town with? Another derelict mess similar to the old General Hospital.
Mind you, having said all that, if the college needs to re-locate I know where there is over six acres of brown field land going on Great Central Road.
TONY PARKIN,Mansfield.
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