AGAIN your paper has carried a number of letters relating to the Hilperton Gap, and the possibility of a road cutting through it, but, yet again, not one person has suggested the cheapest and most obvious alternative; the completion of the Trowbridge Inner Relief Road.

This solution has been suggested by the Parish Council for some years now but neither WCC nor WWDC seem to take the blindest bit of notice probably because it does not fit into their 'long term hidden agenda' of an eastern bypass around Trowbridge stretching from the A350 to the A363 north of Bradford on Avon.

The main bugbear for Hilperton residents is the number, and size, of the lorries which now pass along the totally unsuitable Hill Street/Church Street/Marsh Road, most of which are en route to the industrial estate in Canal Road. Completion of the Trowbridge route would eliminate this traffic at a stroke, albeit at the expense of a slight increase in traffic through the edge of Trowbridge. The whole road would, however, be built on brown field land.

The route suggested by a couple of your correspondents to the east of Hilperton seems to have three major drawbacks; one being that it is 100 per cent green field build, the second being that more housing will probably have to be built to fund it, and the third being that it does not appear in this District Plan and so it cannot be put forward until the 2011 Local Plan is put out for discussion.

I don't think anyone wants to wait that long for a resolution to Hilperton's lorry problem.

E CLARK,

Chairman,

Hilperton Parish Council.