BUSINESS leaders in Marlow left their breakfast with county and district councillors feeling unsatisfied.

They went along to the early morning meeting at Volvo HQ in Marlow on Friday to hear about the Marlow parking and transport strategy from a joint panel of Wycombe district and Bucks county councillors.

Richard Hunt, of Hunts Hardware, High Street, Marlow, said the meeting was not so much a consultation as an attempt to pull the wool over people's eyes.

Colin Berks, president of the Marlow Chamber of Trade, said what people wanted was something on paper.

"We keep asking if we can have a sight of the strategy for the town and we get all sorts of vague answers."

The major issues were, he said:

Reducing the volume of traffic using the town as a rat run to avoid the A404

Traffic calming in the centre

Repairs to the roads

Heavy vehicles destroying kerbs

Parking in town, on residential streets at Globe Park, where the car parks were full and people parked on the grass verges. Traders want short term parking for shoppers and visitors

Park and ride

Buses

Lack of local taxis

Mr Berks said: "One of the points that is annoying this community is that we understand that several hundred thousand pounds has been spent on this exercise and there is nothing to show for it."

Marlow county councillor Frank Sweatman, a member of the joint panel, said the issues raised by Mr Berks were being discussed and the public had been consulted.