Waitrose seems to be the debate where i see a lot of opposition in writing but on speaking to the majority of people who are walking around the town they are all for the store and say they never ever had the use of the green and that Waitrose has resited the cricket club to new plusher surroundings to most peoples liking.I personally think the extra customers Waitrose will bring to the town will be great news for the small buisness,and maybe the locals will also stay in town to do there supermarket shop.

Woodcote2 I salute you. I believe that this matter is over an done with. The fight has been honorable and sadly the vanquished should leave the field. Wimborne has to move on or die as a centre for local trade.

Those who would have preferred to have seen the former cricket ground kept as private land (to which the public do not have access...) just do not seem to understand that the land was freehold land being sold by its legitimate owner for its free market value (presumably measured in millions of pounds). So, and this is the big SO, if anyone wanted it kept as a private green they must first come up with the cash to buy it in the competitive market of land aquasition. This is the simple fact that has seemingly escaped every single person who has expressed a wish to keep the land green. They just fail to grasp the simple fact that it was freehold land being sold for development, so any wish to keep it green MUST be supported by a plan to buy it at its market value (and also bearing in mind the owner can in any case choose whoever he/she wishes to sell the land to!). This is where the heady wishful thinking of KWTG all just falls to pieces. Do these well intended but regrettably delusional supporters of keeping the (private) green honestly think that our town council should have coughed up an absolute fortune to buy the land? Was KWTG prepared to buy it? In the absence of such a plan, can they not get their heads around the simple fact that the land in question WILL be built upon, so its a question of WHAT would we prefer to see being built, not some heady pie-in-the-sky notion of 'keeping it' and seeing housing or whatever winning the day with the prospect on NO open riverside park as we see today – thanks entirely to Waitrose.