A new name is the answer (From Gazette Series)

A new name is the answer

SIR - My suggestion for the name of the development on the

former Lister Petter site is Ashton Dell.

This name combines part of Sir Robert Ashton Lister's name with a generic term for valley.

The new main road serving the development should be called Lister Avenue.

This road should be moved to one side of the development and upgraded to full relief road status. This would improve traffic flow in years to come and provide

central Dursley with its long awaited bypass.

Delkin Village is an inappropriate name. It conjours up images of a pretentious trading estate or of bijou residences.

Anyway, as many readers have pointed out the Delkin is the rivulet, coming down to join the Ewelme, in the valley between Long Down and Downham Hill. Further downstream we have a Dulkin Brook. So let us not use Delkin, Dulkin - or Dilkin for that matter.

Elsewhere in town we see real progress on the former Wilkes site. I am not keen

on the name Jacob Stiff House and prefer the name The Weaver's House.

The new exhibition room is unusual. I sent a photo to friends in Australia

who thought that a bus shelter or a public convenience was being built there.

Ridge Consultants Architects, of Oxford, have been successful in getting their highly contraversial library design for Dursley through the planning approval process.

I do not object to a piece of modern architecture going on this site in May Lane. I just think that the design should be refined somewhat - in line with my attached illustration.

I notice on the Ridge illustrations that 'The World of Oceans' has been

changed to 'The Cotswold Way' and I would welcome reassurances that their

design has not been adapted from an earlier scheme of theirs for a maritime environment elsewhere.

John Wilkes, Tilsdown, Cam