If they take back the cricket playing area at the County Ground, it will be the slow Death Knell of cricket in Trowbridge, and you can't move the pavillion to another location. What will become of Trowbridge Cricket Club ? Why can't the existing hospital absorb this new surgery, it has all the space required without killing off a valuable asset in our County Ground. I have a grandson who plays in the Junior XII, where will he play in the future ?

thats all very well cheery but what in the bigger scheme of things is actually more important? Money being pumped into a lacking and failing health service which locally is in dire need of an upgrade or keep a field for the minority to play on a few days a year? Got nohing against the sport or those that enjoy it, just think forward logical thinking is required rather than keeping things bowling on the same (excuse the pun)

why can't they use Bowyers site - that would surely be big enough once cleared?

The playing field is much more than just history - it is another important part of the town we are in danger of losing. It may be too late to save, with the PCT already having made up their minds, but they still have to get planning permission and there may be still time to fight. The future of Charter House has sometime been in doubt. Why not move this to a new location and use this and the area of land behind Margaret Scancomb's School - presumably no longer needed as they are moving. We would then have the new Health Centre as well as the cricket field.

On seeing this article it pleases me no end to hear that the PCT will be based in Trowbridge.
I hope they will be able to treat people with FIBROMYAGIA.
l wonder as l have Fibromyalgia and l was being treated in 2001 by the PCT pain management unit at the Mineral hospital in Bath and they stopped the funding for the treatment even though l was supposed to be on there treatment books forever, since then l had been sent to the NHS pain management unit at The Royal united hospital in Bath and was treated appallinly, they made me feel l was a drain to the disability payment economy, as well as being told l was lazy and to walk my dogs 3 times a day even though l cannot walk very far most days only to my car to get from A to B, and this took me 9 years to be able to get disability living allowance, also l was told by the NHS to get a voluntary job as well as asking me if my family ever work!!! (what that has to do with it l would love to know,) as you can imagine l was very distraught in the 10 minutes meeting for the assessment for the clinic and have refused to go back, l now find myself without a specialist in the Fibromyalgia field and have not been able to be refered to one since l last saw one in 2001 which was nearly 8years ago though for not the want in trying.
l see my gp but he cannot do anything other than give me my medication which he is happy to do no questions asked as he can see how much pain l am in every day and night continuously, which now has gone from originally pain killers over the counter to Tramadol which is for mild to severe pain and now oxycontin a morphine based drug which is for severe pain.
l find even though it helps me throughout the day as well as what l learnt from the PCT pain management l feel there is more they could do to help.
l would love to know if l am the only one who has been treated like this as l had always worked FULL TIME from the age of 16 until the age 37 until l had the original accident to my shoulder and from that very minute l have been NEVER out of pain and not been able to be employed.

Sorry this is a carry on from above, that last 16 weeks l have been having blood tests as my legs are getting so bad and wlking is nearly impossible, last week l was told l now have mussle and cartilage wasting because of the pain l have not been able to excercise like l want to, and was told that l should go PRIVATE for the MRI and treatment!!! why the hell have l paid my national insurance for? because l cannot afford this l have to wait what could be several months up to a year, and me being begging my gp for tests for nearly 3 years before they took me seriuosly, it took me to go to a different gp to get this to happen!

We had a "Super Surgery" it was the Trowbridge Hospital, brilliant staff, I never heard too much talk of MRSA, so equation goes like this Lose Hospital+Lose Cricket Ground = acquire "Super Surgery" sounds like more politically correct agenda driven drivel to me!

Sorry but I think the most important element here is that we are going to get much more and a vastly improved health service here in Trowbridge, some of the proposed facilities will fill a huge hole and be a boost to the whole area, available to all. Make no excuses, you cant put a price on health.

The land they wish to use is not the cricket ground itself, its land leased to the cricket ground (so land the PCT actually own anyway), it’s the area of land next to the cricket ground that is used for U16s football, the cricket ground its self will not be used or touched, and the plans still show that the row of trees that separate these to parts of land will be left in tact.

As regards to the Bowyers site, this is in the process of being sold to Wiltshire College who will relocate there in the not to distant future.

Lastly I would like to make a point that this town has had a lack of sports pitches for nearly 20 years now, with nothing being done about it. It about time the council drew up a plan of action, apply for funding from the Rugby and Football associations and lottery funding. Then build a multi use sports and leisure facility at Southwick county park.

A good example of some one who needs a service rather than what is essence is a dormant field for the majority of the year. Guess the reasoning behind them not using other land in Trowbridge is because they actually own this land already, which i guess subject to planning they can use for what they wish.

Exactly that Dave good points. I have this morning actually spoken to someone at the PCT (not related to this mind) and the point they raise is that they own the land in the first place - similar to what i mentioned in my last post!!

If they want to put in more services - what on earth is wrong with improving the facilities on the existing Trowbridge Hospital site?

Paving over another bit of green amenity land - just great!

I don't think any of the folk commenting above have actually looked at what's proposed. The doctors certainly aren't going to come quietly it seems.

Having a grand stadium doesn't mean the team'll play well. A lot of the NHS is great - some bits (too many)are woeful and nothings being done to address the problems which revolve mainly around quite appallingly incompetent and self serving "management"

Transparency isn't a strong point of administrative folk in the NHS - this must change.

THe land is not unused most of the year, it is used for cricket in the summer and kids football in the winter!
Has anybody seen any derelict land in Trowbridge going spare ? Hardly a need to deprive the town of more sports facilities