Colours aren't so fine in town (From Gazette Series)

Colours aren't so fine in town

AN HISTORIC market town resident is outraged at the colour and size of signs being used to mark a popular walking route.

John Forster, chairman of Wotton-under-Edge Civic Society, believes the blue signs marking the marking the regraded Cotswold Way national trail are hideous and has called for them to be removed.

"The signs started appearing three years ago but they were on finger posts. I didn't like it at the time but there weren't that many and they were not that big," Mr Forster told the Gazette this week.

"It is not the sort of thing you should be putting up in Wotton when the district council conservation department is very particular about the way people paint their shop.

"People have complained about the Tesco colours but I can't believe that they have come along with something as outrageous as this.

Jo Ronald, Cotswold Way National Trail Development Officer, said: "We did a full consultation with the town council and the reason they are the colour and size they are is because they match the existing signs that are already in place.

These signs were put up with the full agreement of the town council."