My family and I very much enjoyed a day at the Longleat Center Parcs as guests of my brother and his family a few weeks ago, and we were planning to book ourselves a week's stay next Spring. However, on our way home to Dorset, I failed to decelerate rapidly enough from a 60 mph section of the A36 when confronted with a 30 mph limit sign and a speed camera installed in an 'ambush' position just around a blind bend. The outcome: 39 mph in a 30 mph limit, a ?60 fine and three penalty points on my driving licence, which has been clean for over 20 years. A fair cop, you may say? Well, motoring organisations regularly place Wiltshire Police at the top of the list of forces using speed cameras not to improve safety but to raise revenue for their own purposes, and criminalising otherwise law-abiding drivers in the process. What has this to do with Center Parcs? Well, Wiltshire county council need to be told that the revenue-raising approach to traffic regulation adopted by Wiltshire Police will deter people from visiting their county. In my case, I'm sad to say that I will not after all be taking my family to Longleat Center Parcs next Spring, a loss to the oranisation of some several hundred pounds of revenue. Perhaps Center Parcs might like to add their voice to my own in pointing out to Wiltshire County Council the adverse economic impact on businesses of being based in a county where the police force is allowed to raise revenue in this way? Indeed, I will not be visiting or spending money in Wiltshire on any occasion in the forseeable future as a result of this unnecessary incident.

I have to agree with you there, even more so after reading countless damning articles about the Wiltshire Safety Camera people and their antics over the past few years. I was recently caught on the A36 after leaving Center Parcs too. The road was totally clear at the time, and even though I accept from the evidence I was speeding, there has to be a line drawn on the operation and placement of cameras on so-called 'safety grounds'. The partnership obviously target the Monday and Friday departures from Longleat Center Parcs to make money from people who don't know the area very well. This isn't good use of the equipment in my opinion. Maybe the roads immediately either side of Warminster would be better as they seem to have a lot of pedestrians around! I for one will be steering clear of Longleat in future, and any thoughts of moving into the area have been firmly kicked into touch. Well done Wiltshire Police. Another driver you've probably stolen ?60 from, but it will cost your county infinitely more than that in the coming years from the lost income I would have been spending in the area!