SIR: This is in reply to the letter (Our right to reply) February 18 BEN, by Cllrs Burrows, Keating and Spencer.

Filling our villages with tin units and retail outlets is not the answer.

And look at the eyesores: Albert Road, Longcauseway, the old fire station and old Nuttall mill site.

The people in Farnworth and Kearsley should have their rates dropped by half for the extra pollution, noise, industry and retail outlets they have burdened us with and they talk of giving us more. People will spend all their time sitting in their cars, queuing up in traffic and trying to cross roads. The pavements and roads in our areas are a total disgrace with litter, dog mess and mostly big holes and trenches. Anyone falling down uneven pavements can now, I believe, claim from the council automatically. Is this true?

There will be no parking shortly. It will all be taken by retail outlets and heavy traffic, pollution and higher rates.

Let Bolton have the industry on Chorley New Road and Queens Park, or forget it. We've had enough.

T Nelson

Lingfield Close, Farnworth

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