DON’T you just love the letters page in the Shuttle? Anonymous Kidderminster residents who visit Bewdley and then choose to send inaccurate and ill-informed letters to the newspaper (Shuttle, May 26).

Tables and chairs outside pubs in Bewdley are subject to an annual licensing application. Drew, Alan and Paul, from the Mug House, and all the landlords submit their annual renewal and the process, paid for by each licensee, happens.

It is a renewal process. It is a licensed outside area for drinking alcohol.

The alcohol restriction zone is geared to avoiding loutish behavior and cans of beer being drunk in public places. This idea does fail as Bewdley residents visiting the local chemists will testify!

Bewdley is slowly, but surely, becoming a fantastic place to come and eat and drink. An evening sat by the river with a glass of wine or two. A place to bring your motorbike, mountain bike, space hopper and wile away an afternoon in the museum or walking along riverbank. A glass of wine or pint of Bewdley Brewery’s Worcester Way sat outside, what could be better? An evening in Kidderminster?

I would welcome, as a Bewdley resident, the move to make the whole of the river front a pedestrian-only area. An area for controlled and licensed drinking in a French or Italian style. Safe and secure. Policed by responsible and professional licensees.

I would love to see floating restaurants outside each pub, a delight to dine on the water.

Any European riverside location would make the most of their water location. Bewdley misses at the moment. Maybe the local council should add something on this to their regeneration plans for Kidderminster and environs, currently being covered in the Shuttle.

The extravagant plans for the Bewdley area seem to be totally to the benefit of the safari park and Severn Valley Railway. Where is the benefit to the local community?

All of a sudden resources are available for big ideas. Has any research been done on potential impacts as a consequence?

All of a sudden the purse strings are being loosened but how well conceived are the plans?

PHILIP BROOK deli@bewdley Load Street Bewdley