From Colin Fyrth, Ryde: 

I am not sure if I feel shame or embarrassment when I read through your pages of the antics of Bembridge Council (CP, 20-07-18); then I realize it is all a joke. 
Somebody has found an old script of Monty Python and is plagiarising it. 
I think all the people of Bembribge need to sit back and have a re-think. 
If you are surrounded by the same things every day you fail to notice what is actually there in front of you. 
What it needs is when you drive into the village look at everything with stranger’s eyes; look as though it is the first time you have seen whatever. 
When home ask yourself what needs improving, what has the council done for us in the past?
Well, not to mention questionable planning permission. 
The one thing Bembridge council has done for the village is made Bembridge the only village in the country where there is not a car park anywhere near the shopping centre. 
Yet in my time, I know of two parcels of land offered up for just such a purpose, both to be turned down only later to by built on.
I cannot but ask myself how did that happen?
I am afraid unless something is done — and done quickly — what was a lovely village will soon be known as the backside of the Isle of Wight.
Before anybody asks, I was born in the village as was my mother, grandparents, great grandparents and so on.