I WOULD like to assure the people of Calne that my business, Hallmark Photography/Konica Digital photo service is still open for business, despite the fact that for the past five weeks I have had to endure what equates to a building site outside my shop premises in The Pippin.

At times I am surprised my customers can find the door to the shop due to the amount of Transco vehicles parked outside on the pavement.

The last straw is that now they have decided to dig the pavement up just outside the shop entrance, meaning that pedestrians cannot access the pavement at all.

We have a lot of elderly people and young families with prams and buggies that normally use the pavement that runs directly alongside Oxford Road and the corner of The Pippin how are they supposed to cross over what must be one of the busiest roads in the town?

I have just invested in expanding my business further but to be quite honest it makes me wonder why any of us bother.

We all had to put up with the disruption when the library and new shops were being built, we could at least see an eventual end to it all but at the moment wherever you look in the town there seems to be a legacy of traffic lights and steel barricades. It hardly encourages people to stop and see what Calne has to offer.

KEVIN HALL

Proprietor, Hallmark Photography

The Pippin

Calne