However, the area suffers from a surfeit of roadside signs. Advertising needs to be more strictly controlled, while traffic signs everywhere (including the town centre, as we mentioned earlier) should be rationalised and made clearer - especially those which direct drivers to the car parks and the industrial estate.
Perhaps the least attractive approach into the town is that provided by the Croydon Road. While Marlborough Court has been improved with the recent addition of a pitched roof, as we have reported elsewhere, still
there remains some anxiety that it, and its neighbour the Grange Close shopping block, might one day be cited as precedents to allow similar big block buildings else-where in the town.
