IT has until now been self-supporting, except for the peppercorn rent paid by Tavistock Town Council. Now the council wants to cripple it by imposing a high rent and withholding assistance in adapting the Court Gate premises.
There is, I suggest, a moral obligation on the council and the United Reformed Church, as successors to the urban district council and the Congregational Church, to redeem the negligence of their predecessors in not safeguarding the rest room when the church relinquished the Brook Street site.
Let both parties share the cost of conversion at Court Gate and let the town council grant it rent-free to the old folk as originally intended. The council can be confident that the electorate would not haggle over that financial arrangement.
If however, republicanism prevails, what future is there for the commemorative arch to the King George V coronation? How many citizens of the town know where it is?
Graham Kirkpatrick
Parkwood Road
Tavistock