Market Square

Plans to make changes to Romsey’s Market Place look set to go ahead in the face of continuing controversy over just how money for improvements will be spent.

Town planners are reckoning on improvements to the square costing £1.6 million, yet not everyone who has seen the plans agrees on what should be done.

To many, one of the most pressing needs is for uneven pavements on one side of the square to be levelled in the interests of safety for shoppers, particularly the elderly, yet the Department of Transport is calling for a halt to projects involving the levelling of payments

The local authority has already completed improvement work on two streets leading into the Market Square and believe the third phase will enhance and complement the town centre environment. But there is opposition by those who believe objectives of making the area more pedestrian friendly themselves pose safety risks.

Planners who have already given the green light for the work to start, seem adamant though that work will start in the square in January. It could take six months to complete