AFTER reading the article about the Trowbridge Vision doubts in last week's issue (November 14) I was both disheartened and angry.

It described the potential cash crisis that the project could face 'before work has even begun' in your words. From the way the article was written I picked up a negative attitude. As a member of the Vision for Trowbridge, from St Augustine's Catholic College, I am worried that the same negative vibe towards the doubts may be shared among the community through your article.

This causes me such concern and anger because for the past year both the youth group and the consultants for the project have been working alongside the community to try to gain the support needed to make sure that the Vision for Trowbridge does not just become another forgotten plan for the town.

Needless to say, from the figures produced in your article, I have no evidence or data to disagree that money may be a stumbling block for the project, but work has already begun.

The lights in the park may be just a small step forward towards making Trowbridge both a safer and better place, but it is proof that the hard work and time spent by both school students, consultants and those who filled out the questionnaires or put forward their ideas through other forms, has not been, and will not be, wasted.

Although some ideas in the framework may seem hard to reach, there is time for these developments to take place and move forwards, hopefully as soon as possible, but such a large scale development was never going to be a straightforward or easy task.

Perhaps the biggest factor that will make the project a success is the determination and willingness to listen from the town members, something I hope has not been lost through the negativity of your article.

C BURROWS

Year 11 student (age 15)

St Augustine's Catholic College

IT IS projected that by 2011 the Trowbridge Community Area will have a population of 47,000 and that it is a growth area for economic development.

We want major development in Trowbridge but we wish to ensure that it develops in the way that we want, to create a town of which we can be proud.

Trowbridge Future involves many community groups and bodies in the town's development. Trowbridge Future unanimously agreed its complete support for the Urban Design Framework development process, The Vision for Trowbridge.

Trowbridge Future wishes to see the speedy adoption of the Vision and its development into Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG), the principles that will determine where and how land can be developed. We want to see landowners brought together positively to identify and prepare land for development. We wish to see a better physical environment for Trowbridge, with good quality buildings in a mix of residential, commercial and leisure uses.

We support the young people who consulted their peers and produced radical, exciting ideas for the Vision. These are the citizens of today, and of the future.

We believe that the Vision will be the key to unlocking quality development in Trowbridge and west Wiltshire, raising the stakes for the whole of west Wiltshire and bringing greater prosperity to all.

We support the Vision, we believe that it gives Trowbridge and west Wiltshire the opportunity of a generation to benefit all, who live and work in the town and the district.

A MILROY

Vice Chair Trowbridge Future

Bellefield Crescent, Trowbridge