AS Tavistock?s only county councillor I have been trying to get Tavistock Town Council, West Devon Borough Council and Devon County Council to sit down together to resolve the deteriorating parking situation in Tavistock.

Both Tavistock Town and West Devon Borough Council operate car parks within Tavistock. Devon County Council has responsibility for on street parking. All three councils need to work together to get urgent resolution of the problem in a co-ordinated way.

I have helped arrange a meeting of county council, borough council and town council representatives to discuss parking issues in early September 2004, to work together on resolving this.

Give me your views. E-mail, phone me or write to me with them and any ideas. I am happy to meet with you as well. This will mean that I can attend fully informed of what Tavistock wants done.

All of us in Tavistock can only celebrate being awarded ?Best Market Town? in England. Raised awareness brings in more visitors, money and jobs to help local prosperity. Yet there are downsides, like the pressure on our existing land, housing stock, and the forcing up of house prices beyond the reach of most first-time buyers. With the planned building of an additional 600 houses in Tavistock in the near future we will see greater demands being made upon our infrastructure and roads network system.

The most obvious urgent symbol of our success as a community is the town congestion which is happening. We need to resolve this.

Should we have another multi-storey car park in Tavistock? Should we connect Bedford car park to Riverside car park with a bridge over the Tavy? Do we need better, localised public transport from the car parks? What other market towns should we be speaking to about their solutions to the same problem?

Get in touch with me now! Don?t hold back with your ideas!

Roy Connelly

Devon County Councillor

19 Manor Road

Saxon Heights

Tavistock

Tel: 01822 618063