AM I the only person in Malvern who feels short-changed by the new community hospital and combination of two surgeries on separate sites?

What was wrong with going all out for Townsend Way for a combined site? To describe this as an out-of- town site is, I think, typical of the microscopic view taken about anything happening in Malvern.

It offered plenty of space, a level site and easy access, particularly for walkers, cyclists, motorists and a small change to the bus service would complete the picture.

A raucous minority should not have held sway in the way they evidently did.

The Pickersleigh Road site is fraught with difficulties and the Seaford Court site is up a hill with access, presumably, on to the already hazardous A449. Both sites are size limited.

The comment that we will have a holistic service in Malvern is, to my mind, not borne out by the proposed set up.

It is noticeable that Pershore already has a modern Civic Centre with all offices under one roof ensuring staff work in an energy efficient building on one site. In Malvern we seem to neither know nor care how many disparate sites are used or how inconvenient and wasteful the buildings are.

Pershore is to have a combined hospital and surgeries within the next two years. Good for them and congratulations, what a pity Malvern is not so far sighted. We shall not be able to go from the surgery to the hospital for appointment booking, emergency x-rays etc. What a dreary second class prospect.

There is another point, which may not be seen to be very relevant, but the Seaford Court site is in a Conservation Area.

Anyone looking at the brick wall erected outside the building next to Seaford Court and owned by the PCT will see they do not have to abide by stringent planning rules because of Crown immunity, so they can do what they please.

HEATHER TIMNEY, Merton Road, Malvern Link.