Which newspaper do you read? All weekdays, Guardian at the moment. Also at least once a week, Times, Indy, Telegraph. Every Sunday: Sunday Tel, Sindy, Observer.
Are you pro or anti the Phoenix development? Let’s say iffy. Certainly the area, a mess now, must be revivified, but we don’t need such building heights as are seen on the current plan nor so much extra housing if the town’s character is to be kept. (South-East already under strain from Mr Prescott.) What we do need for the prosperity of the town is more local industry in the form of small businesses such as it has had before there. I am glad the local planning authorities are having another look.
Favourite Lewes landmark? Pevsner’s Buildings of England was rude about the Town Hall but I like it so who cares about him?
Could you do anything to be greener? We’re pretty green already. Grow own vegetables, make own bread…
How would you spend a perfect Sunday afternoon? Picnic on Downs perhaps. Or just with friends in garden.
What cd/record/tape is in your hifi?
I’m a Palestrina man myself.
Lewes would be better if…  Fewer drunks, but that’s not special to Lewes of course.  It would also be better (again not a specifically Lewes problem) with more local shops. When we first came here there were about ten retail outlets in Southover High Street alone, now there’s none. The dominance of the superstore has been responsible, which has been made possible by the growth in car ownership, but what about the many who don’t/can’t drive?
What Lewes really doesn’t need is… to get very much bigger than it is already.