Can't fool all the people all the time

Published on 20th December 2007 in Letters

In an article in the Goole Times of December 13 (Street plans go on display), Sally Burns of ERYC referred to "these people" as the individuals responsible for holding up 'Advance Goole'.

This seems to me to be yet another example of ERYC attempting to smear individuals who won't toe the ERYC line. Could this be yet another case, as was mentioned in the Goole Times a few weeks ago, of ERYC looking to blame everyone else for their lack of action, ineptitude, and downright bad management of the madness that is Richard Cooper Street and Phoenix Street? From December, 2004 ERYC have had the power to issue Compulsory Purchase Orders and thereby acquire the properties of "these people" who are theoretically holding them up. ERYC blames "greedy landlords", "a speculative developer", and now "Goole Action Group", but never itself. But yet after three years of this madness, ERYC still has not issued CPOs. The people of Goole have to ask the question WHY? What are they hiding?

It now appears that there is unlikely to be any positive action on this site for at least another four to five years, by which time Shuffleton will have suffered dramatically from the lack of house sales and new investment. It is highly likely that Shuffleton could then become a prime target for a new wave of demolition schemes.

Goole Action Group has put forward its renovation scheme for this area on numerous occasions, but ERYC won't discuss it or issue CPOs, Why? Sally Burns, and ERYC should remember that you can fool some of the people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time.

Alan Wilson

Boothferry Road, Goole