I WAS delighted to see your headline Library move fears dismissed, but when I read on I saw it was no such thing.

Just a few lines further on I saw: “If any relocation does take place, it would remain in the city centre, possibly moving to alongside the Playhouse and City Hall, creating a cultural quarter”.

A backwater off Fisherton Street is not the city centre – to begin with it is SP2.

The library’s present position is ideal and this must be in no small measure responsible for giving Salisbury Library the highest borrowing numbers in Wiltshire. It is particularly easily accessible to the elderly, to anybody coming into Salisbury by bus, or to the market. Young people can call in on their way home from school.

Tucked away at the back of the Maltings would not have any of these advantages and would probably also be a blow to the market, which is currently suffering as the result of grand schemes.

The idea of having a “cultural quarter” does not wash either. When the Playhouse and the City Hall are active, the library is closed and, even in the unlikely event of library hours being extended, would you really go to get a book to take to a show?

MARGERY LEEMING, Salisbury