Early closure

The latest assurance that work on the Potterdyke development is to start is hard to believe, what with so many false starts.

Last year the scheme was amended to phase the project and to proceed with the new health clinic as the first phase.

Yet still nothing happened on the site, nor has the Robin Hood Hotel been demolished.

We are now led to believe that the main construction can start, which sounds like an unlikely turnaround in fortunes given the fragility of the economy.

We are given a date for the bus station to close, but not a date for contractors to start work.

I fear that the bus station is being closed prematurely and that the main development will remain on ice leaving Newark with inadequate on-street bus stops for years.

We need guarantees not false dawns.