I AM responding to your report in last week's paper under the heading Enough is Enough.

How can Chorley Borough Council possibly justify its objections to the proposed scheme for better facilities to be provided by a neighbouring authority?

You only need to send your photographer to Market Street and Astley Park to picture evidence of Chorley's current attempts to improve our town's facilities.

A local contractor could have been engaged at considerable less expense to provide block paving in Market Street. I consider the time taken and inconvenience to pedestrians to be excessive.

Do the Council regard their attempts to replace the paddling pool in Astley Park as a success? After several weeks work and disruption to park users, we have been left with an unsightly area of mud.

The Council claim, according to your article, to be concerned that increased car use creates more pollution. Have officials not witnessed the appalling pollution, deposited on Astley Village most Wednesday afternoons by smoke and toxic petro-chemical fumes emanating from Washington Hall fire training centre.

Come on Chorley, we live in a competitive world. Give the taxpayers effective and efficient, well planned developments.

If Chorley is not to be the bottom of the shopping league, its planners must accept that more attractive relevant developments are required. Don't be negative about the attempts of others.

D Jolly, Longcroft Meadow, Chorley.

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