Sudbury, in so many ways, is unique. Its building options are limited by the river and meadows, thankfully, and by housing and industrial developments that encircle the remaining area, all of which are set to expand further, as and when the financial situation improves.
People's Park should be left quite alone as a natural open space providing both simple views and many potential social uses. The NHS management, past and present, have shown utter incompetence in mishandling the health care project along with taxpayers' money.
I dare say millions have already been spent and what do we have to show for it? A journey to Bury.

A portion of the land originally designated for the hospital has already been sold off for housing. The threatened sale of remaining land will neither raise the funds to get the PCT out of its financial situation or indeed fund a new facility. The PCT should bow out gracefully and turn its full attention to ensuring the people of Sudbury get the care they are more than entitled to.
An option is for the building on the St Leonard's site to be replaced by the new proposed health centre.

Belle Vue House, park and gardens should remain untouched, though the toilets could be re-developed. The whole public amenity is just too valuable to the town for anyone, let alone a distant Babergh, to put a value on let alone dispose of.

More local accommodation for the elderly may be required but at the cost of losing what they themselves, their grandchildren and thousands of others enjoy, must be seen as totally unacceptable.

Another option might be to move Roys to the land next to the bus station, the current Roys building becoming the health centre.
Most agree the current bus station is improperly sited and new locations are always being sought, so spending money and effort on the current one will not eliminate its problems.

Sudbury needs local knowledgeable people, not outsiders, to sit round a table – one table – to discuss its present and future requirements. Those people should have access to all the ideas being mooted by various allegedly interested parties.
Town planners and councils of the past carried out their work without hindsight and we constantly now criticise and wish for change.
Current planners and councils also are without hindsight but they have access to so much more than their predecessors plus they have the results of others to learn from. Let's all hope they do.
TREVOR GREEN
Queensway
Great Cornard