So our local councillors give the go ahead to a Peninsula scheme that nobody wants, (Echo lead story Sat. 15/9/18) but oppose a desperately needed bypass, the Jurassic Coast Highway, that could really help regenerate the most economically deprived area in England. It can only happen in Weymouth & Portland.

Hopefully, when the Unitary Authority for the whole of Dorset, excluding Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch, comes into being on the 1st of April 2019, the thirteen members of the Planning Committee who opposed the bypass will not be part of it.

Would it not be wise to wait until the UK has left the EU before the Ferry Port, funded as I remember back in the 70’s by the rate payers of Weymouth and Melcombe Regis, is built over? We cannot predict who the UK will be trading with in the years ahead. Weymouth might well have a role to play as a small commercial port?

It’s midnight in the year 2025 and the London train is leaving the Ferry Port loaded with Guernsey flowers, tomatoes and tons of Jersey Royals. An ancient Weymouthian can dream can’t he??

Rodney Best

Doncaster Road

Weymouth