How would you feel if you are prevented from accessing your property for 15 days every year?

Residents of the town centre continue to endure the artisan markets blocking access to their homes once a month plus other events that make it 15 days every year.

The market in particular is supposed to bring benefits to the town, according to our council.

Well, they get paid a sum for allowing it to happen, but for those who actually live in the town centre, it goes like this: The company setting up arrives at 6am, banging their tables and stalls and shouting to each other as they set up the infrastructure, waking anyone who would actually quite like to lie in on Sunday morning, or even have a normal sleep.

The streets are then too crowded for residents to walk down to go about their daily business freely, and they can’t access their cars in the town centre so can’t go anywhere, unless they have remembered to move them to another location well away from their homes the night before.

Other activities are disrupted, such as church services which have to put up with the noise and a loud band playing during times of worship.

I understand too, that the market was moved from King Street because too many businesses there objected to having stalls in front of their premises.

The rights of the minority have been trodden on and ignored to facilitate this commercial venture.

It is time for this event to be moved to The Heath or elsewhere away from the town centre where the disruption will be lessened for all who live in the town centre.

Richard Cussons Knutsford