When is a square not a square? When it's a car park.

I know it's not a very good joke but today has been one of those days when what seemed like a good idea to me appears to be a bad idea to others. It's difficult really because it is now probably five years since John Thompson and his team suggested that the only natural centre for Mytholmroyd was the church and so the village square ought to be where the hall currently is. Then we said we liked our hall and given that the meeting this was suggested we were in that hall perhaps we ought to try and keep it. The idea to turn the car park into a village square kept on floating. Today it seems it might be possible but... it is likely that we will lose some car parking spaces.

Multipurpose spaces are hard to plan but they are everywhere and in the end is it possible to have it all, can we have carparking spaces and a square? If so which should we choose? Answers in an e-mail to erringden@aol.com!

So what's the difference between a carpark and a village square?

One has tarmac and one has cobbles!