I entirely agree with the Gazette comment today when it suggests that council elections come around all to often for any positive long-lasting ideas for one council to come up with before being discarded by the next (Gazette, May 9, “Revolving door is spinning again”).

Three elections over four years are the cause of so many mind changes that make elections completely non effective.

An instance among so many: At the moment as I write this Elfreda House is undergoing a complete rebuild and refurbishment as have Walnut Tree House and others before it.

So the question that must follow on is why did this not happen to Trippier House?

Why was it sold off to become another festering vandalised mess that Colchester can well do without?

Think of the amount of time that has passed so absolutely detrimental to the housing of folk, or even refugees.

In my mind another shocking example of the waste of taxpayers’ money.

Recently I suggested that Colchester Council becomes unitary council.

I firmly stick to that and suggest that local elections be held to coincide with national elections.

That way people could vote every five years or so for both at the same time. Again this would save lots of time and money and maybe do away with a middle management that we simply do not need.

Tony Ashby

Colchester

'It’s time to change election system'

WITH over 67 per cent of voters not bothering to vote in the recent local elections, is it time the Colchester went from elections three out of four years to one election every four years with the whole council up for election at the same time?

Would one election deal with the voter apathy and save the council money?

Johan Mahoney-Berg

De Grey Road, Colchester