Save homes and work with local community

Published on 4th September 2008 in Letters

Sir -

Having left Goole many years ago, I find your on-line paper invaluable for keeping up to date with events in my home town.

It is with great regret I read of the sad demise of those two grand old streets - Phoenix Street and Richard Cooper Street. My initial thoughts on the action the council were going to take - i.e. demolition - was one of horror, but I guess I thought like most of Goole people that the council knew what they were doing and it was for the best.

Then, having read four years of excuse after excuse from the council with absolutely no progress, other than for a once great area to be totally blighted, I have to rethink. Just what have they done?

From an independent point of view why don't they look at the renovation plans that the action group say they have. Why are the council working against the community instead of with it? Surely, after four years the council should at least have issued CPOs, - could the action group in fact have a case when it says that they (the council) are afraid of a public enquiry, and the dirty linen that could be washed in public. Is the council's case for demolition so weak that they daredn't risk a Public Enquiry?

There are now so many questions that the council appears to ignore, I begin to wonder about their motives.

Michael Phillips

France.