IT’S not often that I find myself in agreement with three letters in one issue, but Sue Allan and Messrs Heselwood and Miller were all a palpable hit with me last week.

Glyn Heselwood is right to point out that, if Cheshire East boasts about filling in a zillion potholes a year, it’s a confession of failure, not success.

The more potholes that have to be repaired, the more appalling is the basic state of the roads. And the longevity of such repairs is notoriously short; my granny used to refer to such makeshift repairs as putting new cloth in an old coat. It’s still an old coat.

Sue Allan and John Miller also hit the nail on the head, pointing out the irony of Mr Mooney and other traders bemoaning the state of King Street, five minutes after vetoing its improvement plan.

I well recognise the difficulty of running a small/medium sized high street business these days, as the country still struggles to recover fully from the 2008/9 financial crash.

However, survey after survey, shows that more than 70 per cent of residents want a King Street that is more pedestrian-friendly and has some restriction on traffic flow and parking.

The key point is that this ‘more than 70 per cent’ are their customers.

A problem which does have to be addressed is the sort of time-scale for the work that CEC gave us for the recent King Street proposals.

18 months to two years were the sort of duration bandied around and, if I were a trader, I would be concerned about disruption lasting that long.

That sort of timescale is nonsense.

CEC please give us decent roads that are free of pothole patches, plus a realistic timescale for improving King Street. And traders, please regard King Street improvement as an opportunity, not a threat.

Geoff Holman Leycester Road